MediaTek Dimensity 720 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 720 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 720 Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.3264 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 720

391528

Apple A12 Bionic +64%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 720

774

Apple A12 Bionic +68%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 720

1861

Apple A12 Bionic +52%

2843

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 720

326

Apple A12 Bionic +76%

576

MediaTek Dimensity 720

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

10 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP3

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

850 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

3

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

64

12

Max size

4

0.3264 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 64MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

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

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Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2020

Announced

Sep 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6853V

Model number

APL1W81

MediaTek Dimensity 720

Official page

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