Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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Apple A9

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +165%

1651

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +614%

6833

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

1850 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

3 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

0

L3 cache

6 MB

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

6

Execution units

6

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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