Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 Bionic and MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
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 A15 Bionic
1299090
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
2878376
CPU309916611291
GPU4321051316366
Memory243964508871
UX313105441848
NanoReview Score12990902878376
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
2927
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus
9000
File Compression203.3 MB/s359.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/s252.5 pages/s
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/sec300.4 MP/sec
Background Blur22.2 frames/s33.2 frames/s
Photo Processing60.2 frames/s78.2 frames/s
Image Detection130 frames/s223.1 frames/s
HDR169.9 MP/sec267.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/sec9.25 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 1x 3.73 GHz – Cortex-X925
- 3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 3730
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB 12 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 15 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 A15 GPU Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Valhall 5th gen
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 1612 MHz
Execution Units 5 12
Shader Units 128 128
Total shader 640 1536
FLOPS 1712.6 GFLOPS 4952.1 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 3.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine MediaTek NPU 890
GPU Frequency 15.8 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 5333 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 85.3 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 24 GB

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 3840x2160 pixels
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
- VP8
- VP9
- 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. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 7300 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.0 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2021 yr April, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 MT6991 MT6991Z/TCZA

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus the clear winner in this comparison.

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