Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio P70

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek Helio P70

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio P70 . 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 0.0972 TFLOPS )

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

MediaTek Helio P70 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +17%

285954

MediaTek Helio P70

243318

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +88%

623

MediaTek Helio P70

330

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Helio P70 +11%

1068

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +156%

249

MediaTek Helio P70

97

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Helio P70

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

5.5

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP3

650 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

6

Execution units

3

32

Shading units

18

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0972 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

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)

NeuroPilot

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2160 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Oct 2018

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MT6771V/CT

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio P70

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