MediaTek Helio G96 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Helio G96 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 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 G96 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (17.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2050MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G96 +35%

388043

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G96 +4%

651

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G96 +94%

1860

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G96

243

Apple A9 +2%

249

MediaTek Helio G96

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Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2050 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

Mali-G57 MP2

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

950 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

10

Max size

4

0.243 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

17.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, 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. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 650 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2021

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6781

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Helio G96

Official page

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