Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio G36

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Apple A9 MediaTek Helio G36

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G36 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

MediaTek Helio G36 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 5W)

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +85%

285954

MediaTek Helio G36

154460

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +172%

623

MediaTek Helio G36

229

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +12%

957

MediaTek Helio G36

848

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +479%

249

MediaTek Helio G36

43

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Helio G36

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

2.2 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

PowerVR GE8320

650 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

6

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

8

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0435 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2400 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 50MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Feb 2022

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio G36

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