Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio G81

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek Helio G81

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G81 . 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 0.0912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)

MediaTek Helio G81 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +9%

285954

MediaTek Helio G81

262145

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +173%

249

MediaTek Helio G81

91

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Helio G81

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP2

650 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

6

Execution units

-

32

Shading units

24

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0912 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

-

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Aug 2024

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

-

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