A9 Family
Comparing 2 tiers. Where a tier has multiple variants, values show the range across all configurations.
| Spec | A9X | A9 |
|---|---|---|
| Devices | – |
iPhone SE (1st generation) iPhone 6S Plus iPhone 6S |
| CPU | ||
| CPU Cores | 2 | 2 |
| Performance Cores | 2 | 2 |
| Performance CPU Name | Twister | Twister |
| Performance Core Speed (GHz) | 2.26 | 1.85 |
| CPU ISA | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| GPU | ||
| GPU cores | 12 | 6 |
| GPU Frequency (GHz) | 650 | 650 |
| Ray Tracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| GPU Vendor | PowerVR | PowerVR |
| Memory | ||
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 51.2 | – |
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory options (GB) | 4 | 2 |
| Media Engine | ||
| Hardware Acceleration |
H264 HEVC |
H264 HEVC |
| Semiconductor Tech | ||
| Process node (nm) | 16 | 16 |
| Transistors (billion) | 3 | – |
| Die size (mm²) | 143.9 | – |
| Part number | APL1021 | APL1022 |
| Release date | 2015-11-11 | 2015-09-09 |