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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 9000 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 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 9000 47
Apple A18 93
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 45
Apple A18 89
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 59
Apple A18 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Apple A18
CPU 254411 421143
GPU 384881 615010
Memory 180981 178670
UX 185288 345874
Total score 1005561 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 32.46% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (4040 vs 3050 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 9000 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 55.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 9000 (1,561 K vs 1,006 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 9000.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 1275
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 4132
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3200 x 1440 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 4 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MP10 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 10 -
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1648 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3750 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 60 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 590 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 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 AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

CPU
47%
GPU
45%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
93%
GPU
89%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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