Apple A14 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 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 0.6543 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 3100MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A14 Bionic
1061696
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+57%
1675507
FP32 (float)
Apple A14 Bionic
0.654 TFLOPS
MediaTek Dimensity 8450
+256%
2.329 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
3100 MHz
Frequency
3250 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
6 MB
5 nm
Process
4 nm
11.8
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A14 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
1278 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
4
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
128
6
Max size
24
0.6543 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
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
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, 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. 18
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2020
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W01
Model number
-
