Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3200MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7913 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 5W)

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +317%

1193511

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +165%

1654

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +371%

4517

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus +619%

1791

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

1850 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G710 MP10

650 MHz

GPU frequency

933 MHz

6

Execution units

10

32

Shading units

96

4

Max size

24

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7913 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

3750 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 590

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP, 3x 32MP

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

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7000 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, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Jul 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

MT6983Z

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus

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