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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 1100 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1100 vs Apple A18 SoCs by Mediatek and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Dimensity 1100 28
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1100 25
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1100 79
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1100 44
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1100 Apple A18
CPU 143843 421143
GPU 205643 615010
Memory 109699 178670
UX 107424 345874
Total score 566609 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 55.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1100 (4040 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1100 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1100 (7500 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1100 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 175.45% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1100 (1,561 K vs 567 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1100 655
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1100 2500
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Dimensity 1100 134
Apple A18

Face detection

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Dimensity 1100 34.1
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1100 62.2
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1100 57.1
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1100 30.2
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1100 1.95
Apple A18

SQLite

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Dimensity 1100 990.4
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 26 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @144Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

9%
Base Frequency

200 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 9 -
  • Shading units 144 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDRLPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 32MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem 5G-integrated modem Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1100

CPU
28%
GPU
25%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18

CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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