MediaTek Dimensity 920 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 920

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz MediaTek Dimensity 920 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 920 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.684 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 5W)

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 920 +86%

531953

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 920 +49%

931

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 920 +143%

2331

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 920 +174%

684

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 920

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2500 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

14 nm

10

Transistor count

2

4 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G68 MP4

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

950 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

0.684 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

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

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2021

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6877T

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Dimensity 920

Official page

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