MediaTek Dimensity 1200 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 1200 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1200 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.9792 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +152%

722511

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +79%

1118

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +234%

3198

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 +293%

979

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

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Apple A9

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3000 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

320 KB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

14 nm

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Transistor count

2

10 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP9

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

850 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

9

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

0.9792 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek APU 3.0

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek APU 3.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Helio M70

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 19

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4700 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MT6893

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Dimensity 1200

Official page

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