MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Apple A9

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

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +165%

1651

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 +614%

6833

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A9

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3250 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3.5 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

6 MB

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G720 MC7

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1400 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

8533 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

136 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek NPU 880

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek NPU 880

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

Official page

-

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