Apple A16 Bionic vs Mediatek Dimensity 1200
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 1200 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 A16 Bionic chip
- A16 Bionic chip has 15.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3460 vs 3000 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1200 (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (4 vs 6 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 44.35 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (965 K vs 668 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
- A16 Bionic chip supports 76.55 % higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 ( 51.2 vs 29 MHz).
Pros of Dimensity 1200
- Dimensity 1200 has -39.20 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 850 vs 1398 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 170589 |
| GPU | 408357 | 233643 |
| Memory | 162944 | 118786 |
| UX | 146541 | 145445 |
| Total score | 964952 | 668463 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | 93% |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | 25 FPS |
| Score | 9862 | 4179 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78 3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 3000MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | 32 KB |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | 0.32 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 8 MB |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 6 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 16 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 8 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Mali-G77 MC9 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Valhall |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | 9 |
| Shading units | 768 | 144 |
| Total shaders | 1536 | 288 |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Yes |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 4266 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 29 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 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+ | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 19 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 4700 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 1600 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | January 2021 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W10 | MT6893 |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Dimensity 1200 official site |