Apple A11 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 6400
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2500MHz MediaTek Dimensity 6400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A11 Bionic 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)
MediaTek Dimensity 6400 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 10nm)
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
MediaTek Dimensity 6400
+8%
446033
CPU
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2390 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
2 MB
10 nm
Process
6 nm
4.3
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G57 MP2
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
-
3
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
64
4
Max size
12
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
17.07 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.2
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
2K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
2K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 3300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2017
Announced
Feb 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W72
Model number
-
