MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Apple A18
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
3250 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache
1 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
6 MB
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Process
4 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Apple A18 GPU
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1490 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.2
-
DirectX version
12
-
Execution units
-
5
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
60 Gb/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
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Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Neural Engine
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
6.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 24
Upload speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
1,622,118
Geekbench 6
1,617
3,466
Geekbench 6
6,406
8,592
FP32 (float)
2,329
1,907