MediaTek Helio G81 vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G81 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
MediaTek Helio G81 Advantages
Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Apple A9 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0912 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
MediaTek Helio G81
262145
Apple A9
+9%
285954
FP32 (float)
MediaTek Helio G81
91
Apple A9
+173%
249
CPU
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2000 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
8
Cores
2
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
-
L2 cache
3 MB
-
L3 cache
0
12 nm
Process
14 nm
-
Transistor count
2
-
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G52 MP2
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
950 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
-
Execution units
6
24
Shading units
32
8
Max size
4
0.0912 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
1800 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
13.41 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
2520 x 1080
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
2K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
-
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.4
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Aug 2024
Announced
Sep 2015
Low end
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1022
