Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 800

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Apple A9 MediaTek Dimensity 800

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 800 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

MediaTek Dimensity 800 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3328 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17.07GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

MediaTek Dimensity 800 +3%

644

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 800 +137%

2276

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 800 +33%

332

Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 800

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP4

650 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3328 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

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

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

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Dec 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MT6873

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 800

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