Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek MT6580

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Apple A12 Bionic MediaTek MT6580

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6580 . 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 0.004 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 4.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +14300%

576

MediaTek MT6580

4

Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek MT6580

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A7

2490 MHz

Frequency

1300 MHz

6

Cores

4

8 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

7 nm

Process

28 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-400 MP2

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

2

4

Max size

2

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.004 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

10

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

4.3 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

1440 x 720

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 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

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

Audio codecs

MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jan 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W81

Model number

MT6580

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Official page

MediaTek MT6580

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