Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +26%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +140%

6833

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

2490 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

8 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

4

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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