Apple A9 VS Exynos 7420 VS Apple A8 VS Snapdragon 805
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Apple A9 chip has improved more than expected. It doesn’t feature a quad-core or octa-core processor, but its dual-core turned out enough to take over Samsung’s Exynos 7420, that is considered the fastest chip as for now.
Apple A9 chip in iPhone 6s and 6s plus score much higher in Geekbench 3 performance test. Its single-core performance score goes over 25o0, and multi-core surpasses 4400.
Apple A8 was good enough to perform any task smoothly, but A9 is monster being a dual-core SoC. In terms of single-core performance, Apple A8 is still better than Exynos 7420, but in multi-core level Exynos 7420 wins. Now it’s different. Compared to Apple A8 SoC, Apple A9 chip performs almost 60 percent faster in single-core performance and 50 percent faster in multi-core.
Note : S6 edge has been misspelled as 6s edge.
Snapdragon 805 is a 32-bit quad-core OS that Motorola Nexus 6 features, and Exynos 5433 is not the Samsung’s latest Chip that Galaxy Note 4 features. So We won’t talk about those devices.
Apple A9 VS Exynos 7420
Samsung’s Exynos 7420 and Apple A9 both are based on 14nm FinFET technology. Apple A9 has also been manufactured by Samsung. This makes us little confused that how they manufacture Apple’s chip to perform that fast in dual-core, and how they make their own? Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge features an octa-core Exynos 7420 SoC and 3GB RAM, but it performs quite similar to Apple 9 chip in multi-core performance. However, Apple A9 SoC with 2GB RAM in iPhone 6s and 6s plus performs almost 90 percent faster compared to S6 edge.
You may also like to watch iPhone 6s water and drop test.
The graphic view of the performance test prepared by Apple inside defines that Apple A9 chip is leading the race. Apple has proved that having so many cores in a chip doesn’t help to perform well. Along with chip many things matter, like how optimized the system is, what technology storage, memory and chipset uses, and the most important thing is OS. Android OS needs more RAM and better chip to perform well, but iOS manage to perform fast even with less RAM and dual-core SoC.
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus speed test with Apple A9 Chip
Also watch the speed test video captured by Apple Insider that shows how fast iPhone 6s and 6s plus is. The videos shows that iPhone 6s Plus is faster than iPhone 6s. Whenever they tap on an application, iPhone 6s Plus launches it quicker than iPhone 6.
September 27, 2015 @ 3:38 pm
You are closing the book on what the benchmarks show a bit prematurely. Putting a heavy reliance on Geekbench is not a great idea to begin with – it is one of the poorer benchmarks out there. That said, Geekbench benchmark tests of the Exynos 7420 are returning inconsistent results. The results seem to be clustered into numbers that are sometimes relatively low (1300ish single core and mid 4000s multi-core) and sometimes relatively high (1500ish single core and low 5000s multi-core). Possible explanations for this have been advanced. There has been the suggestion that the tests have been improperly set up. Others have asserted that the 7420 SoC itself is generating the inconsistent results because it is hitting thermal limits and throttling. There has also been the suggestion that the lower numbers are correct and that Samsung is cooking the books by using optimizations that allow the SoC to exceed normal thermal limits for brief periods on sensing certain specialized workloads (i.e. certain common benchmarks). This has been done in the past by Samsung and others so it can’t be ruled out. Still, nothing is proven at this stage. Rather, what we have is a question over the performance of the Exynos 7420 that is in need of an answer.
December 1, 2015 @ 3:17 am
> That said, Geekbench benchmark tests of the Exynos 7420 have been returning inconsistent results.
Blame samsung inability to design pefromant chips for this. They are just overclocked too much and this leads to throttling.
A9 is a great chip, in fact it is wonderful: iPhone 6s performance is about on par with Macbook 2015. Could you believe in this a couple of years ago?!
February 16, 2016 @ 4:24 am
The A9 is nowhere near as powerful as the MacBook 2015 i5 or i7 model what are you an idiot?
The Intel core M model?… maybe but that chip is the most gimped cpu chipset you can get and it’s only purpose is for long lasting battery life as it sips energy.
You realise that the Intel core M model MacBook 2015 was also surpassed by the Exynos 7420 in multicore score right… so under your stupid philosophy Samsung is also faster then the MacBook 2015 !?! What a miraculous chip they are at the bleeding edge of technology rightttt!!! WRONG neither chip is even close to desktop or even laptop quality standards… basically the A9 and Exynos 7420 would make for an extremely low end Macbook.
October 2, 2015 @ 10:27 am
Dont forget, Apple’s A9 SoC is an ARM dual-core 14nm FinFET, the Exynos 7420 is a big.LITTLE octa-core 14nm FinFET, so single-core scores are not what you can expect on the 7420, but the multi-core score is a godlike, but, because the A9 is a dual-core, energy consumption is theoretically reduced because you basically increase power with more cores.