MediaTek Dimensity 9400 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3630MHz MediaTek Dimensity 9400 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 9400 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 (3630MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Apple A12 Bionic Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 15W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
+311%
2647012
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
+759%
4952
Apple A12 Bionic
576
CPU
1x 3.63 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
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
3630 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
3.5 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
12 MB
L3 cache
-
3 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
15 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
1612 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
-
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
4.9521 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
3.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
5333 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
85.3 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
MediaTek NPU 890
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
-
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
-
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
5
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Oct 2024
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
MT6991
Model number
APL1W81
