MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Apple A13 Bionic

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2650MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Score

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

3250 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8.5

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

6

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

-

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

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

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