Apple A15 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

Compared 2 processors: Apple A15 Bionic, vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic
1299090
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
3449366
CPU309916786574
GPU4321051422243
Memory243964725851
UX313105514698
NanoReview Score12990903449366
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A15 Bionic
9395
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
n/a
Stability82 %n/a
Graphics Test56 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
2332
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
3381
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A15 Bionic
5736
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
11289
File Compression203.3 MB/sn/a
HTML5 Browser124.4 pages/sn/a
PDF Rendering143.5 MP/secn/a
Background Blur22.2 frames/sn/a
Photo Processing60.2 frames/sn/a
Image Detection130 frames/sn/a
HDR169.9 MP/secn/a
Ray Tracing5.93 MP/secn/a

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
- 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
- 2/4 (Cortex-X930 Travis)
- 6/2.4 (Cortex-A730 Gelas)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3230 4000
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 12 MB n/a
L3 Cache n/a 16 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 n/a
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU n/a
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 1000 MHz
Execution Units 5 n/a
Shader Units 128 n/a
Total shader 640 n/a
FLOPS 1712.6 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 15.8 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
- 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 n/a
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 September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W07 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A15 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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