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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Dimensity 9400 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 42
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 41
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 55
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Dimensity 9400
CPU 203493 600293
GPU 284242 1194784
Memory 131989 408283
UX 131211 443652
Total score 750935 2647012
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 17.1% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3630 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 150.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (5333 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 40% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 252.50% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (2,647 K vs 751 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Dimensity 9400 8972

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Dimensity 9400

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Dimensity 9400

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Dimensity 9400

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Dimensity 9400

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Dimensity 9400

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Dimensity 9400

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Dimensity 9400

3DMark

Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture - Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency - 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units - 192
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 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 NPU 890
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • 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
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • 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
42%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU
91%
GPU
94%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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