Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Mediatek Dimensity 700
We’ve put together a comprehensive comparison of the newly released A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 700 SoCs, brought to you by Apple and Mediatek respectively. This analysis breaks down the pros and cons of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs, evaluated through their Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark scores, along with their technical details.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of A15 Bionic Chip
- A15 Bionic Chip has 46.82% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 700 (3230 vs 2200 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 700 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 700 (5 vs 7 nm).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 140.41 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 700 (809 K vs 337 K).
- A15 Bionic Chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 700.
- A15 Bionic Chip supports 99.77 % higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 700 ( 34.1 vs 17.07 MHz).
Pros of Dimensity 700
- Dimensity 700 has -20.83 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 950 vs 1200 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 98632 |
| GPU | 351594 | 71777 |
| Memory | 118044 | 72555 |
| UX | 130276 | 93594 |
| Total score | 809118 | 336558 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 99% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 6 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 1097 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2200MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Mali-G57 MC2 |
| Architecture | - | Valhall |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 950 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 2 |
| Shading units | 640 | 32 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 64 |
| FLOPS | - | 243 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Yes |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 17.07 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 2K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 2K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 2770 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 211 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | November 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid-range |
| Model number | APL1W07 | MT6833V/ZA |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Dimensity 700 official site |