MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek Dimensity 820

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 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 820 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.416 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 820

489218

Apple A12 Bionic +31%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820

847

Apple A12 Bionic +53%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820

2494

Apple A12 Bionic +13%

2843

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820

416

Apple A12 Bionic +38%

576

MediaTek Dimensity 820

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2600 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

5

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

0.416 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, 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

-

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2020

Announced

Sep 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6875

Model number

APL1W81

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

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