Apple A18 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A18

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 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

Apple A18 Advantages

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3250MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 60GB/s)

Score

Apple A18

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

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

4040 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

3 nm

Process

4 nm

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

5

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

-

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

-

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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