MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 +435%

3449366

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.27 GHz – Cortex-A730

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

3400 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

24 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

15 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

-

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

1300 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

-

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

76.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 320MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

-

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2024

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

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