Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio G90

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Apple A12 Bionic

MediaTek Helio G90

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.2074 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +105%

1301

MediaTek Helio G90

632

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +75%

2843

MediaTek Helio G90

1619

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +178%

576

MediaTek Helio G90

207

Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek Helio G90

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2050 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

12 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP4

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

36

4

Max size

10

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2074 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediTek APU 2.0

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jul 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

MT6785V/CD

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Official page

MediaTek Helio G90

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