Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9000
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3050MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9000 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.632 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3050MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
MediaTek Dimensity 9000
+68%
1084030
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
1301
MediaTek Dimensity 9000
+22%
1599
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
MediaTek Dimensity 9000
+47%
4199
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
MediaTek Dimensity 9000
+183%
1632
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
2490 MHz
Frequency
3050 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
4 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
4 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G710 MP10
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
850 MHz
4
Execution units
10
64
Shading units
96
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.632 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3200 x 1440
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
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
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7000 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Nov 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
MT6983
