MediaTek Helio A25 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Helio A25 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz MediaTek Helio A25 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 Helio A25 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0416 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio A25

133726

Apple A9 +113%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio A25

152

Apple A9 +309%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio A25

708

Apple A9 +35%

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio A25

41

Apple A9 +507%

249

MediaTek Helio A25

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Apple A9

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

1800 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8320

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

660 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

6

8

Shading units

32

6

Max size

4

0.0416 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

13.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

NeuroPilot

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

NeuroPilot

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1600 x 720

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 4

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2018

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

MT6762V/WD

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Helio A25

Official page

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