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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Dimensity 9300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Dimensity 9300 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 9300 92
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 47
Dimensity 9300 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Dimensity 9300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 60
Dimensity 9300 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Dimensity 9300
CPU 203493 485064
GPU 284242 899463
Memory 131989 357691
UX 131211 312866
Total score 750935 2055084
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9300

  • Dimensity 9300 has 4.84% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3250 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 125.04% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (4800 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 173.67% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (2,055 K vs 751 K ).
  • Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Dimensity 9300 Support 125.22% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (76.8 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Dimensity 9300 2265

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Dimensity 9300 7995

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Dimensity 9300

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Dimensity 9300

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Dimensity 9300

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Dimensity 9300

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Dimensity 9300

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Dimensity 9300

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Dimensity 9300

3DMark

Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 116 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz 4k@120Hz, WQHD@180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - Yes
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3250 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
    1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB -
  • L3 cache - 18 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion 22.7 Billion
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture - Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency - 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 4 12
  • Shading units - 192
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops 5990.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDRLPDDR5T
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 790
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
47%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 9300

CPU
92%
GPU
95%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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