Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic 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 1.7126 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 3230MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+29%
1675507
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
1712
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+36%
2329
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
3230 MHz
Frequency
3250 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
6 MB
5 nm
Process
4 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.3296 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.2
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
-
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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W07
Model number
-
