Apple A13 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2650MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Score

Apple A13 Bionic

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

Architecture

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

2650 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.4-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

8 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

7 nm

Process

4 nm

8.5

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

4

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.1

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

5 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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