Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 1080
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 1080 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.686 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)
Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+19%
643548
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
537997
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+34%
1301
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
969
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+17%
2843
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
2421
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
+19%
686
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2490 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
6 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
4 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G68 MP4
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
800 MHz
4
Execution units
4
64
Shading units
-
4
Max size
16
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.686 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek APU 3.0
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 2770 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1250 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Oct 2022
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
MT6877V/TTZA
