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Apple A9

Benchmarks for the Apple A9 can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

  • The first graph shows the relative performance of the CPU compared to the 10 other common (single) CPUs in terms of PassMark CPU Mark.
  • The 2nd graph shows the value for money, in terms of the CPUMark per dollar.
  • The pricing history data shows the price for a single Processor. For multiple Processors, multiply the price shown by the number of CPUs.

Apple A9

Description:

Class: Mobile/Embedded

Socket:

Clockspeed: 1.9 GHz

Cores: 2 Threads: 2

Other names: ARMv8-A Apple A9, Apple A9

CPU First Seen on Charts: Q1 2021

CPUmark/$Price: NA

Overall Rank:
3290th fastest in multithreading out of 5268 CPUs
3118th fastest in single threading out of 5268 CPUs
657th fastest in out of 1151 Mobile/Embedded CPUs

Last Price Change: NA

Average CPU Mark rating
Multithread Rating
2071
Single Thread Rating
1188

Samples: 1464*
*Margin for error: Low

CPU Test Suite Average Results for Apple A9

Integer Math6,546 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Math3,099 MOps/Sec
Find Prime Numbers14 Million Primes/Sec
Random String Sorting3,284 Thousand Strings/Sec
Data Encryption1,322 MBytes/Sec
Data Compression23,525 KBytes/Sec
Physics199 Frames/Sec
Extended Instructions993 Million Matrices/Sec
Single Thread1,188 MOps/Sec
From submitted results to PerformanceTest V10 as of 12th of July 2025.

CPU Mark Distribution for Apple A9

Submitted Baseline Distribution Graph as of 8th of July 2025
From submitted results since PerformanceTest V10 as of 8th of July 2025.
For distribution graph only: Results are trimmed to exclude outliers by disregarding the bottom 1% and top 1% of submissions.

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CPU Mark Relative to Top 10 Common Mobile/Embedded CPUs
As of 12th of July 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average CPU Mark
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
 24,903
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U
 18,272
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz
 14,148
Intel Core i7-1265U
 13,385
Intel Core i5-1235U
 12,918
Apple A15 Bionic
 9,893
Apple A14 Bionic
 8,554
Apple A13 Bionic
 5,751
Intel N100
 5,392
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G
 3,793
Apple A9
 2,071
CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price )
As of 12th of July 2025 - Higher results represent better value
Processor CPU Mark / $Price
Intel N100
 42.13
Intel Core i5-1235U
 41.81
Intel Core i7-1265U
 31.42
Apple A9
 NA
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
 NA
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G
 NA
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U
 NA
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz
 NA
Apple A15 Bionic
 NA
Apple A14 Bionic
 NA
Apple A13 Bionic
 NA
Single Thread Rating
As of 12th of July 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average Thread Rating
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz
 3,680
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
 3,588
Apple A15 Bionic
 3,588
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U
 3,549
Apple A14 Bionic
 3,390
Intel Core i5-1235U
 3,150
Intel Core i7-1265U
 3,146
Apple A13 Bionic
 2,341
Intel N100
 1,907
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G
 1,832
Apple A9
 1,188
Last 5 Baselines for Apple A9
Most recent listed first
Baseline CPU Mark
BL8101236 - Jul 09 2025
2257
BL8101086 - Jul 05 2025
2113
BL8100825 - Jun 28 2025
2307
BL8100811 - Jun 28 2025
2254
BL8100596 - Jun 23 2025
2155
Additional baselines can be obtained using Windows version of PerformanceTest's Manage Baselines feature.
Popular comparisons for Apple A9
As of 12th of July 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average CPU Mark
Apple A9
 2,071
Apple A9X vs Apple A9
 2,518 (+21.6%)
Intel Celeron N4500 @ 1.10GHz vs Apple A9
 1,844 (-11.0%)
Apple A8X vs Apple A9
 2,380 (+14.9%)
Intel Celeron N6211 @ 1.20GHz vs Apple A9
 2,245 (+8.4%)
Intel Atom x6211E @ 1.20GHz vs Apple A9
 1,695 (-18.1%)
Intel Atom x6211E @ 1.20GHz vs Apple A9
 1,695 (-18.1%)
Intel Celeron N4505 @ 2.00GHz vs Apple A9
 2,136 (+3.2%)
Intel Celeron 6305E @ 1.80GHz vs Apple A9
 2,030 (-2.0%)
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc SDM712 vs Apple A9
 2,614 (+26.2%)
Unisoc T618 vs Apple A9
 2,584 (+24.8%)
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc SDM670 vs Apple A9
 2,573 (+24.3%)
Samsung Exynos 9611 vs Apple A9
 2,562 (+23.7%)