Performance and Hardware
Under the hood, the Galaxy A9 (2016) is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 chipset, an octa-core CPU with a configuration of four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 1.8 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.4 GHz. This processing power, paired with the Adreno 510 GPU and 3GB of RAM, delivers satisfactory performance for multitasking and running graphics-intensive applications. The device originally shipped with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop but is upgradable to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, which provides some degree of modernization in its software experience.
- ⬤ Samsung Galaxy A9 (2016) Introduction
- ⬤ Samsung Galaxy A9 (2016) Design and Build Quality
- ⬤ Samsung Galaxy A9 (2016) Display
- ⬤ Samsung Galaxy A9 (2016) Performance and Hardware