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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:
3477th fastest in multithreading out of 5489 CPUs
3283rd fastest in single threading out of 5489 CPUs
718th fastest in out of 1227 Mobile/Embedded CPUs

Last Price Change: NA

Average CPU Mark rating
Multithread Rating
2073
Single Thread Rating
1188

Samples: 1494*
*Margin for error: Low

CPU Test Suite Average Results for Apple A9

Integer Math6,569 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Math3,102 MOps/Sec
Find Prime Numbers14 Million Primes/Sec
Random String Sorting3,284 Thousand Strings/Sec
Data Encryption1,322 MBytes/Sec
Data Compression23,537 KBytes/Sec
Physics199 Frames/Sec
Extended Instructions995 Million Matrices/Sec
Single Thread1,188 MOps/Sec
From submitted results to PerformanceTest V10 as of 12th of December 2025.

CPU Mark Distribution for Apple A9

Submitted Baseline Distribution Graph as of 11th of December 2025
From submitted results since PerformanceTest V10 as of 11th of December 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 December 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average CPU Mark
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
 24,671
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U
 18,315
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz
 14,144
Intel Core i5-1235U
 12,721
Apple A15 Bionic
 9,890
Apple A14 Bionic
 8,547
Intel N97
 5,866
Apple A13 Bionic
 5,770
Intel N100
 5,356
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G
 3,799
Apple A9
 2,073
CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price )
As of 12th of December 2025 - Higher results represent better value
Processor CPU Mark / $Price
Intel N97
 45.83
Intel N100
 41.84
Intel Core i5-1235U
 41.17
Apple A9
 NA
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
 NA
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U
 NA
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G
 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 December 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average Thread Rating
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz
 3,678
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U
 3,583
Apple A15 Bionic
 3,583
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
 3,556
Apple A14 Bionic
 3,383
Intel Core i5-1235U
 3,108
Apple A13 Bionic
 2,348
Intel N97
 2,039
Intel N100
 1,896
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G
 1,819
Apple A9
 1,188
Last 5 Baselines for Apple A9
Most recent listed first
Baseline CPU Mark
BL8109573 - Dec 06 2025
2309
BL8109557 - Dec 06 2025
2338
BL8109447 - Dec 03 2025
2282
BL8109213 - Nov 29 2025
2297
BL8109193 - Nov 29 2025
2314
Additional baselines can be obtained using Windows version of PerformanceTest's Manage Baselines feature.
Popular comparisons for Apple A9
As of 12th of December 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average CPU Mark
Apple A9
 2,073
Apple A9X vs Apple A9
 2,509 (+21.0%)
Intel Celeron N4500 @ 1.10GHz vs Apple A9
 1,814 (-12.5%)
Rockchip RK3399 vs Apple A9
 1,560 (-24.7%)
Apple A8X vs Apple A9
 2,384 (+15.0%)
Intel Celeron N6211 @ 1.20GHz vs Apple A9
 2,245 (+8.3%)
Intel Atom x6211E @ 1.20GHz vs Apple A9
 1,695 (-18.2%)
Intel Atom x6211E @ 1.20GHz vs Apple A9
 1,695 (-18.2%)
Intel Celeron 6305E @ 1.80GHz vs Apple A9
 2,021 (-2.5%)
Intel Celeron N4505 @ 2.00GHz vs Apple A9
 1,960 (-5.4%)
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc SDM712 vs Apple A9
 2,621 (+26.4%)
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc SDM670 vs Apple A9
 2,585 (+24.7%)
MediaTek MT8183 vs Apple A9
 2,578 (+24.4%)