MediaTek MT6580 vs Apple A9

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MediaTek MT6580 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6580 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

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.004 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 4.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek MT6580

4

Apple A9 +6125%

249

MediaTek MT6580

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A7

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

1300 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

4

Cores

2

512 KB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

14 nm

1

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-400 MP2

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

500 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

2

Shading units

32

2

Max size

4

0.004 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

10

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

533 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

4.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

NVMe

1440 x 720

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

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

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2016

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

MT6580

Model number

APL1022

MediaTek MT6580

Official page

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