MediaTek Helio P90 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek Helio P90 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio P90 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 P90 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1552 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.91GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio P90 +45%

414755

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio P90

415

Apple A9 +50%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio P90 +43%

1377

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio P90

155

Apple A9 +60%

249

MediaTek Helio P90

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Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex A75
6x 2 GHz – Cortex A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2200 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

1 MB

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 GM9446

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

970 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

10

Execution units

6

8

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.1552 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

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

13.91 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

MediaTek APU 2.0

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

MediaTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K 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

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Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 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, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2018

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6779V/CU

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek Helio P90

Official page

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