Apple A9
The Apple A9 is a high-end dual-core ARM SoC for smartphones . It was announced in Sept. 2015 in the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Technical details were not published, but the CPU part should be about 70% and the GPU 90% faster than the previous Apple A8. Therefore, the performance should be on par with high-end Android SoCs in 2015.
It is based on the third generation of Apples 64 Bit architectures (Cyclone 3?) and uses a "new transistor technology". It is manufactured at Samsung in 14nm (slightly smaller die) and TSMC at 16nm (both FINFET 3D transistors). A performance difference of both versions are not noticable.
Furthermore, the chip now integrates the M9 motion coprocessor and a 4K video de- and encoder (as the iPhones 6s supports 4K video recording). The integrated graphics card should be still based on PowerVR technology.
The power consumption could be lower than the A8 due to the new process technology and the fact that the iPhones now got a smaller battery (due to the haptic engine part).
Series Apple Codename Cyclone 3 Series: Cyclone 3 Apple A9X 2.26 GHz 2 / 2 Cyclone 3 Apple A9 « 1.8 GHz 2 / 2 Cyclone 3
Clock Rate 1800 MHz Number of Cores / Threads 2 / 2 Manufacturing Technology 14/16 nm Features ARMv8 Instruction Set GPU Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600 64 Bit 64 Bit support Architecture ARM Announcement Date 09/09/2015
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 12854 avg: 13248 median: 13210.5 (11%) max: 13717 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
1094 Points (14%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
1093 Points (16%)
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Geekbench 5.4 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
531 points (23%)
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Geekbench 5.4 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
970 points (3%)
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
2556 points (26%)
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
4459 points (5%)
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 2503 avg: 2527 median: 2526.5 (36%) max: 2550 points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4286 avg: 4359 median: 4359 (11%) max: 4432 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4386 avg: 4412 median: 4422 (7%) max: 4429 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 2533 avg: 2537 median: 2538 (38%) max: 2539 points
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 1225 avg: 1260 median: 1260 (43%) max: 1295 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 669 avg: 677 median: 677 (66%) max: 685 MFLOPS
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 1458 avg: 1656 median: 1712 (2%) max: 1743 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
223 ms (2%)
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 15967 avg: 16716 median: 16375 (16%) max: 18148 Points
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AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 58869 avg: 58977 median: 58976.5 (59%) max: 59084 Points
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 126969 avg: 129767 median: 128706 (44%) max: 133626 Points
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 46285 avg: 48479 median: 48849 (6%) max: 49934 Points
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Apple A9 | Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600 | 9.70" | 478 g
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Apple A9 | Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600 | 4.00" | 113 g
Apple iPhone 6S Plus Smartphone Review Bigger and better. Sounds disrespectful, but it is just a pun. The latest Apple iPhone 6S Plus is all about the touch as part of the new handling concept called...
Apple A9 | Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600 | 5.50" | 192 g
Apple iPhone 6S Smartphone Review The 3D Midas touch. No disrespect intended for the Apple iPhone 6S, but rather to point out the new control concept 3D Touch, which is one of the most importan...
Apple A9 | Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600 | 4.70" | 143 g
Apple iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus First Impressions Touch me harder! This is what the new iPhones are about – the touch. At least in terms of the handling with 3D Touch. The new Apple smartphones are obviously fa...
Apple A9 | Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600 | 4.70" | 143 g
Apple iPad (2017) : Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600, 9.70", 0.5 kgExternal Review » Apple iPad (2017)
Apple iPhone SE : Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600, 4.00", 0.1 kgExternal Review » Apple iPhone SE
Apple iPhone 6S Plus : Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600, 5.50", 0.2 kgExternal Review » Apple iPhone 6S Plus
Apple iPhone 6S : Apple A9 / PowerVR GT7600, 4.70", 0.1 kgExternal Review » Apple iPhone 6S
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