Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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Apple A15 Bionic MediaTek Dimensity 9400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 15W)

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 3230MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +167%

3449366

Apple A15 Bionic

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MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.27 GHz – Cortex-A730

3230 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

6

Cores

8

12 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

24 MB

5 nm

Process

3 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

-

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

1300 MHz

5

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

6

Max size

24

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

-

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Nov 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

-

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