What is the difference between Apple A10 Fusion and Apple A9? Should you buy phone having Apple A10 Fusion or should go for Apple A9? Well, you'll get all your questions cleared here.Compare two chipset models on the basis of their benchmark score (AnTuTu and Geekbench), pros and cons, technical specs categorised into gaming, CPU, GPU, Multimedia, and Connectivity.
Apple A10 Fusion has a AnTuTu benchmark score of 251384 and Apple A9 has AnTuTu score of 171612. Apple A10 Fusion comes up with 4 cores, 2340 MHz frequency and on the other hand, Apple A9 has 2 cores and 1850 MHz frequency. In terms of Graphics, Apple A10 Fusion has PowerVR GT7600 GPU and Rogue architecture and latter Apple A9 comes up with PowerVR GT7600 GPU and Rogue architecture.
Go through detailed comparison below to see the actual difference and similarity between both chipsets.
| Specifications | A10 Fusion | A9 |
|---|---|---|
| Total score | 251384 | 171612 |
| Frequency | 2340 MHz | 1850 MHz |
| Max size | 3 GB | 4 GB |
| Max display resolution | 2048 x 1536 | 1920 x 1080 |
AnTuTu Score | ||
| CPU | 47633 | 70699 |
| GPU | 78628 | 36687 |
| Memory | 33145 | 31959 |
| UX | 24576 | 35338 |
| Total score | 251384 | 171612 |
Connectivity Features | ||
| Modem | Qualcomm MDM9645M | Qualcomm MDM9635M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 6 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 450 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 100 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 4 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 4.2 |
Performance | ||
| Processor | 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 0 GHz – Zephyr | 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister |
| Cores | 4 | 2 |
| Frequency | 2340 MHz | 1850 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 64 KB | |
| L2 cache | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Process | 16 nanometers | 14 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 3.3 billion | 2 billion |
| TDP | 5 W | 5 W |
Geekbench Score | ||
| Image compression | 65.95 Mpixels/s | 53.4 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 12.5 images/s | 9.04 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 27.5 words/s | 21.9 words/s |
| Machine learning | 29.55 images/s | 26.3 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 15.3 images/s | 12.2 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.83 Mnodes/s | 1.34 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 426.85 Krows/s | 313 Krows/s |
Graphics | ||
| GPU name | PowerVR GT7600 | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | Rogue | Rogue |
| GPU frequency | 900 MHz | 650 MHz |
| Execution units | 6 | 6 |
| Shading units | 196 | 192 |
| FLOPS | 115 Gigaflops | |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 11 |
Memory Info | ||
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Max size | 3 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia | ||
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | No |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2048 x 1536 | 1920 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Apple A10 Fusion has been announced on September 2016 whereas Apple A9 has been announced on September 2015. Check out detailed comparison with key specs below:
Benchmark measures the performance of the CPU. Geekbench is a benchmark that measures a processor's single core performance and AnTuTu score is the most popular and trustable benchmarking score which evaluates multi core performance. A10 Fusion has an AnTuTu benchmark score of 251384 points with CPU, GPU, Memory, UX score 47633, 78628, 33145, 24576 respectively.
CPU speed shows how many processing cycles per second can be executed by a CPU. A10 Fusion comes up with the architecture of Rogue and A9 comes up with architecture of Rogue. Former one has 4 core and 2340 MHz frequency and latter has 2 cores and 1850 MHz frequency. A larger cache time leads to faster performance.
Apple A10 Fusion has PowerVR GT7600 GPU with GPU Frequency as 900 MHz. Dynamic frequency allows the processor to conserve power and reduce noise when it is under a light load. Apple A9 has PowerVR GT7600 GPU with GPU Frequency as 650 MHz.
First chipset has max size of 3 GB and Apple A9 has max size of 3 GB. It shows the maximum amount of memory supported by a chipset.
In terms of multimedia, A10 Fusion has No NPU with storage type as NVMe and A9 has No NPU and NVMe storage type.