MediaTek Dimensity 8400 vs Apple A9
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Frequency
3250 MHz
1850 MHz
Cores
8
2
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
0
Process
4 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
64 KB
Transistor count
-
2
TDP
-
5 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
650 MHz
Execution units
6
6
Shading units
128
32
Vulkan version
1.3
1.1
OpenCL version
3.2
1.2
DirectX version
12
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
1333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek NPU 880
Apple M9
Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 450 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 6
Info
Announced
Dec 2024
Sep 2015
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
MT6899, MT6899Z
APL1022
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,623,874
285,954
Geekbench 6
1,571
623
Geekbench 6
6,033
957
FP32 (float)
-
249