Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3730MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.9521 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (85.3GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3730MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
+347%
2878376
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
+759%
4952
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3.73 GHz – Cortex-X925
3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
2490 MHz
Frequency
3730 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
12 MB
7 nm
Process
3 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1612 MHz
4
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
4.9521 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
3.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 890
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7300 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Apr 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
MT6991 MT6991Z/TCZA
