Apple A9 vs Apple A11 Bionic
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Frequency
1850 MHz
2390 MHz
Cores
2
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
64 KB
64 KB
L2 cache
0
0
L3 cache
0
-
Process
14 nm
10 nm
Transistor count
2
4.3
TDP
5 W
8 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
Apple A11 GPU
GPU frequency
650 MHz
1066 MHz
Execution units
6
3
Shading units
32
64
Vulkan version
1.1
1.0
OpenCL version
1.2
2.1
DirectX version
11
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
Apple M10
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
2436 x 1125
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
4.2
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Sep 2015
Sep 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1022
APL1W72
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
285,954
409,550
Geekbench 6
623
1,097
Geekbench 6
957
2,357
FP32 (float)
249
409