Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.3296 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3250MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
MediaTek Dimensity 8400
+152%
1623874
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
MediaTek Dimensity 8400
+304%
2329
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
2490 MHz
Frequency
3250 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
6 MB
7 nm
Process
4 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
4
Execution units
6
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.3296 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
3.2
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Dec 2024
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
MT6899, MT6899Z
