Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio X30

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Apple A9 MediaTek Helio X30

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . 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 0.2176 TFLOPS )

MediaTek Helio X30 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (27.81GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +85%

623

MediaTek Helio X30

336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Helio X30 +16%

1115

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +14%

249

MediaTek Helio X30

217

Apple A9

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MediaTek Helio X30

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35

1850 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

2

Cores

10

3 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

PowerVR GT7400 Plus

650 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

6

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

32

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

27.81 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 16MP

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, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 10

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Feb 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

MT6799

-

Official page

MediaTek Helio X30

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