Apple A18 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8100

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Apple A18

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 2850MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8100 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.309 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +79%

1539646

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

860129

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +36%

1789

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

1309

Apple A18

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MediaTek Dimensity 8100

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

4040 MHz

Frequency

2850 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

5 nm

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G610 MP6

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

860 MHz

5

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.309 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

-

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

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

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X75

Modem

MediaTek UltraSave 2.0

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4700 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6895Z/TCZA

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

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