Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio P23

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P23 . 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 0.0494 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

MediaTek Helio P23 Advantages

Lower TDP (2.5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +588%

1301

MediaTek Helio P23

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +245%

2843

MediaTek Helio P23

822

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +1075%

576

MediaTek Helio P23

49

Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek Helio P23

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.65 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

2.5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP2

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

770 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

16

4

Max size

6

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0494 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2160 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Aug 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W81

Model number

MT6763V/CT

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Official page

MediaTek Helio P23

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