Apple A9 vs MediaTek Helio G99
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz MediaTek Helio G99 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Helio G99 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2816 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (17.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A9
285954
MediaTek Helio G99
+45%
415167
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A9
623
MediaTek Helio G99
+17%
733
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A9
957
MediaTek Helio G99
+108%
1994
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
0.249 TFLOPS
MediaTek Helio G99
+12%
0.281 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
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
6 nm
2
Transistor count
-
5 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Mali-G57 MP2
650 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
6
Execution units
2
32
Shading units
64
4
Max size
10
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2816 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
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
17.1 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.2
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
2K at 30FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
2K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
No
5G support
No
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 650 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
May 2022
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1022
Model number
MT6789
