Apple A14 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

Compared 2 processors: Apple A14 Bionic, vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A14 Bionic and MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A14 Bionic
1095315
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
3449366
CPU310050786574
GPU3231431422243
Memory173777725851
UX288345514698
NanoReview Score10953153449366
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A14 Bionic
7655
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
n/a
Stability69 %n/a
Graphics Test45 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A14 Bionic
2079
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
3381
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A14 Bionic
4779
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
11289
File Compression167 MB/sn/a
HTML5 Browser105.5 pages/sn/a
PDF Rendering116.4 MP/secn/a
Background Blur17.6 frames/sn/a
Photo Processing51.5 frames/sn/a
Image Detection95.7 frames/sn/a
HDR147.6 MP/secn/a
Ray Tracing5.18 MP/secn/a

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
- 2/4 (Cortex-X930 Travis)
- 6/2.4 (Cortex-A730 Gelas)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3100 4000
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB n/a
L2 cache 8 MB n/a
L3 Cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 11.8 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A14 GPU n/a
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU n/a
GPU Frequency 1278 MHz 1000 MHz
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 64 n/a
Total shader 256 n/a
FLOPS 654.3 GFLOPS 5315 GFLOPS

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine MediaTek NPU 9.0
GPU Frequency 11 TOPS 100 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz n/a
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 6 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels n/a
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.0 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2020 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W01 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A14 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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