Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 820

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Apple A9 MediaTek Dimensity 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

MediaTek Dimensity 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.416 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17.07GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +71%

489218

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +35%

847

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +160%

2494

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +67%

416

Apple A9

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MediaTek Dimensity 820

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP5

650 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

5

32

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.416 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

May 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MT6875

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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