Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8200

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek Dimensity 8200

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3100MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8200 . 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 8200 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.442 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

MediaTek Dimensity 8200 +215%

903370

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

MediaTek Dimensity 8200 +97%

1229

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 8200 +310%

3924

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 8200 +479%

1442

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8200

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 3.1 GHz – Cortex A78
3x 3 GHz – Cortex A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

3100 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G610 MP6

650 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

6

Execution units

6

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.442 TFLOPS

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

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 580

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

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

Dec 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MT6896Z

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8200

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