Apple A15 Bionic Chip vs MediaTek Dimensity 9000
We’ve put together a comprehensive comparison of the newly released A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9000 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 5.90% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (3230 vs 3050 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 13.76% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 9000 (4266 vs 3750 MHz).
Pros of Dimensity 9000
- Dimensity 9000 has -29.17 % higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip ( 850 vs 1200 MHz).
- Dimensity 9000 has 20.00 % smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip ( 4 vs 5 nm).
- Dimensity 9000 has 24.28 % better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip ( 1006 K vs 809 K).
- Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip .
- Dimensity 9000 Support 75.95 % higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip ( 60 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 209204 | 254411 |
| GPU | 351594 | 384881 |
| Memory | 118044 | 180981 |
| UX | 130276 | 185288 |
| Total score | 809118 | 1005561 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 90% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 47 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 7853 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A15 Bionic Chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2 3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230MHz | 3050MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv9-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 8 MB |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 15 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 6 W | 4 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Mali-G710 MP10 |
| Architecture | - | Valhall 3 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Pipelines | 5 | 10 |
| Shading units | 640 | 512 |
| Total shaders | 1280 | 1024 |
| FLOPS | - | 1648 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | MediaTek APU 590 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 3750 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 60 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3200 x 1440 |
| Max camera resolution | - | 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| 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 LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7000 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| 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 | November 2021 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | MT6983 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Dimensity 9000 official site |