MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 820 Apple A9

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

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.416 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17.07GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +71%

489218

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +35%

847

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +160%

2494

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +67%

416

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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Apple A9

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2600 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

1 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

14 nm

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Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

650 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

5

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

0.416 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

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6875

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

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