MediaTek Helio G35 vs Apple A9

VS

MediaTek Helio G35

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz MediaTek Helio G35 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 G35 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (2.2W vs 5W)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )

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

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G35

140781

Apple A9 +103%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G35

189

Apple A9 +229%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G35

813

Apple A9 +17%

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G35

43

Apple A9 +479%

249

MediaTek Helio G35

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2300 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

2.2 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8320

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

680 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

6

8

Shading units

32

6

Max size

4

0.0435 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

12

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

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2400 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 25MP, 2x 13MP

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. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

MT6765G

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Helio G35

Official page

-

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