Apple A18 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9000

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Apple A18

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 3050MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9000 . 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 1.632 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +42%

1539646

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

1084030

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +9%

1789

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

1632

Apple A18

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MediaTek Dimensity 9000

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

4040 MHz

Frequency

3050 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

4 nm

-

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G710 MP10

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

5

Execution units

10

128

Shading units

96

8

Max size

24

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.632 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

3750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

60 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

3200 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP, 3x 32MP

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

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7000 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, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Nov 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MT6983

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

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