MediaTek Dimensity 8100 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek Dimensity 8100

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2850MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8100 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8100 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.309 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2850MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 8100 +33%

860129

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

1145

Apple A12 Bionic +13%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8100 +27%

3633

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 8100 +127%

1309

Apple A12 Bionic

576

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

2850 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

5 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G610 MP6

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

860 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

6

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

1.309 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

MediaTek UltraSave 2.0

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4700 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2022

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MT6895Z/TCZA

Model number

APL1W81

MediaTek Dimensity 8100

Official page

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