Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio G50
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G50 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A9 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)
MediaTek Helio G50 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)
Released 9 years and 5 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A9
+91%
285954
MediaTek Helio G50
149247
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
+479%
0.249 TFLOPS
MediaTek Helio G50
0.043 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
1850 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
2
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
-
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
12 nm
2
Transistor count
-
5 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
PowerVR GE8320
650 MHz
GPU frequency
680 MHz
6
Execution units
-
32
Shading units
8
4
Max size
8
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0435 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
1.2
11
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
1600 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
13.9 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
2400 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 50MP, 2x 13MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
No
5G support
No
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
Feb 2025
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1022
Model number
MT6765V
