Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400e . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.9936 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Released 9 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A9
285954
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
+655%
2159260
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
0.249 TFLOPS
MediaTek Dimensity 9400e
+1503%
3.993 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
1850 MHz
Frequency
3400 MHz
2
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
-
0
L3 cache
8 MB
14 nm
Process
4 nm
2
Transistor count
22.7
5 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
650 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
6
Execution units
-
32
Shading units
128
4
Max size
24
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
3.9936 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
1.2
OpenCL version
3.0
11
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR5X
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 790
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
7
4.2
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
May 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1022
Model number
-
