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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Dimensity 9000 SoCs by Apple and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-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
A14 Bionic 50
Dimensity 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 48
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 60
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Dimensity 9000
CPU 203493 254411
GPU 284242 384881
Memory 131989 180981
UX 131211 185288
Total score 750935 1005561
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 1.64% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (3100 vs 3050 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 33.91% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,006 K vs 751 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 75.95% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (60 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Dimensity 9000

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3200 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
    1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture - Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency - 850 MHz
  • Execution units 4 10
  • Shading units - 512
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops 1648 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 590
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

CPU
49%
GPU
46%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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