Apple A10 Fusion vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8450 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 8450 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3296 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2340MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 16nm)
Released 8 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A10 Fusion
347439
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+382%
1675507
FP32 (float)
Apple A10 Fusion
249
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+835%
2329
CPU
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
2340 MHz
Frequency
3250 MHz
4
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
3 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
16 nm
Process
4 nm
3.3
Transistor count
-
5 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
650 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
6
Execution units
-
32
Shading units
128
4
Max size
24
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.3296 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
1.2
OpenCL version
3.2
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR5X
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Qualcomm MDM9645M
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 100 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
6
4.2
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2016
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W24
Model number
-
