Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3730MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.9521 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (85.3GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3730MHz vs 3230MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
+123%
2878376
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
1.712 TFLOPS
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
+189%
4.952 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3.73 GHz – Cortex-X925
3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
3230 MHz
Frequency
3730 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
12 MB
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-
-
5 nm
Process
3 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1612 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
24
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
4.9521 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gbit/s
AI
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-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 890
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7300 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Apr 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
MT6991 MT6991Z/TCZA
