MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Apple A18

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.416 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 820

489218

Apple A18 +214%

1539646

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820

416

Apple A18 +330%

1789

MediaTek Dimensity 820

VS

Apple A18

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2600 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

5

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

0.416 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

-

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

May 2020

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6875

Model number

-

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

-

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