Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio P23

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Apple A9 MediaTek Helio P23

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio P23 . 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 0.0494 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

MediaTek Helio P23 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

Lower TDP (2.5W vs 5W)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +229%

623

MediaTek Helio P23

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +16%

957

MediaTek Helio P23

822

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +408%

249

MediaTek Helio P23

49

Apple A9

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MediaTek Helio P23

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 1.65 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

2.5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP2

650 MHz

GPU frequency

770 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

16

4

Max size

6

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0494 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 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

2160 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 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

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Aug 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

MT6763V/CT

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio P23

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