Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8000

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Apple A9 MediaTek Dimensity 8000

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2750MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8000 . 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 6W)

MediaTek Dimensity 8000 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.309 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2750MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 8000 +425%

1309

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8000

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2750 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G610 MP6

650 MHz

GPU frequency

860 MHz

6

Execution units

6

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.309 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

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

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

MediaTek UltraSave 2.0

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4700 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

MT6895

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8000

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