Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 900

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 900 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 18.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2400MHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 900 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.621 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +24%

643548

MediaTek Dimensity 900

516049

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +44%

1301

MediaTek Dimensity 900

898

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +26%

2843

MediaTek Dimensity 900

2240

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

MediaTek Dimensity 900 +7%

621

Apple A12 Bionic

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MediaTek Dimensity 900

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

6 nm

6.9

Transistor count

10

6 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

48

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.621 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

18.4 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

May 2021

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

MT6877

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 900

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