Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1000
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1000 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A9 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)
MediaTek Dimensity 1000 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.9792 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.87GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
0.249 TFLOPS
MediaTek Dimensity 1000
+293%
0.979 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
1850 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
2
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
-
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
7 nm
2
Transistor count
-
5 W
TDP
10 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Mali-G77 MP9
650 MHz
GPU frequency
850 MHz
6
Execution units
9
32
Shading units
64
4
Max size
16
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.9792 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.87 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek APU 3.0
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 80MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
Helio M70
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 19
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4700 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
4.2
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
Nov 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1022
Model number
MT6889
