Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 7020

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek Dimensity 7020

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Dimensity 7020 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 7020 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2592 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 5W)

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

MediaTek Dimensity 7020 +64%

471522

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 7020 +4%

259

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 7020

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

6 nm

2

Transistor count

10

5 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

IMG BXM-8-256

650 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

8

32

Shading units

18

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2592 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

3.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

May 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 7020

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