MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Apple A11 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 8450 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3296 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+309%
1675507
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+469%
2329
Apple A11 Bionic
409
CPU
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
3250 MHz
Frequency
2390 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
1 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
6 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
10 nm
-
Transistor count
4.3
-
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G720 MP7
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
1300 MHz
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
-
Execution units
3
128
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
2.3296 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4093 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.0
3.2
OpenCL version
2.1
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4266 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
68.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
MediaTek NPU 880
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
2960 x 1440
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 5170 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
May 2025
Announced
Sep 2017
Mid range
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1W72
