MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 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 9400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +1106%

3449366

Apple A9

285954

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

VS

Apple A9

CPU

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.27 GHz – Cortex-A730

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3400 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

24 MB

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

15 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

-

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1300 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

76.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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