MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Apple A18

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 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

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 60GB/s)

Apple A18 Advantages

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3250MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Score

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A18

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

3250 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

-

6 MB

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

3 nm

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

6

Execution units

5

-

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

-

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.4

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

-

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