Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio G96

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 . 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 0.243 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +65%

643548

MediaTek Helio G96

388043

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +99%

1301

MediaTek Helio G96

651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +52%

2843

MediaTek Helio G96

1860

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +137%

576

MediaTek Helio G96

243

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

MediaTek Helio G96

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

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-G57 MP2

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

64

4

Max size

10

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.243 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 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

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. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 650 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jun 2021

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

MT6781

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio G96

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