Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 7030

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek Dimensity 7030

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz MediaTek Dimensity 7030 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 7030 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

MediaTek Dimensity 7030 +82%

522736

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

MediaTek Dimensity 7030 +68%

1051

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 7030 +161%

2500

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 7030

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2500 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

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G610 MP3

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

6

Execution units

3

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

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

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 7030

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