MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Apple M4 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 4.4 GHz –5x 2.85 GHz –
Frequency
3250 MHz
4400 MHz
Cores
8
9
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache
1 MB
16 MB
L3 cache
6 MB
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Process
4 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
Transistor count
-
28
TDP
-
20 W

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Apple M4 GPU
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1598 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.2
-
DirectX version
12
-
Execution units
-
10

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
7500 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
120 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
38 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
2064 x 2752
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
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Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 24
Upload speed
-
Up to 7500 Mbps

Info

Announced
May 2025
May 2024
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Official page
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📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
2,713,488
Geekbench 6
1,617
3,767
Geekbench 6
6,406
14,677
FP32 (float)
2,329
4,090