Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs Mediatek Dimensity 7200
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 7200 SoCs, developed by Apple and Mediatek respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 6-core and 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full technical specifications.
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 15.36% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7200 (3230 vs 2800 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 29.02 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7200 (809 K vs 627 K).
Pros of Dimensity 7200
- Dimensity 7200 has 50.02 % higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip ( 6400 vs 4266 MHz).
- Dimensity 7200 has 20.00 % smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip ( 4 vs 5 nm).
- Dimensity 7200 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip .
- Dimensity 7200 Support 19.35 % higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip ( 40.7 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 160410 |
| GPU | 351594 | 202112 |
| Memory | 118044 | 119625 |
| UX | 130276 | 144980 |
| Total score | 809118 | 627127 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | - |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 24 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 4142 |
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 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 2800MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv9-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | 12 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Mali-G610 MC4 |
| Architecture | - | Valhall 2 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | - |
| Pipelines | 5 | 4 |
| Shading units | 640 | 512 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 1024 |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Mediatek APU 650 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 6400 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 40.7 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 2560 x 1440 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | 2CC 5G Modem |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 21 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 4700 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 0 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 0 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 0 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2021 | February 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | MT6886 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Dimensity 7200 official site |