Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip 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
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 9000
CPU 209204 254411
GPU 351594 384881
Memory 118044 180981
UX 130276 185288
Total score 809118 1005561
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 5.90% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (3230 vs 3050 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 41.18% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (1200 vs 850 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 13.76% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 9000 (4266 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 24.28% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,006 K vs 809 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 75.95% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (60 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 9000

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 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

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    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 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture - Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 5 10
  • Shading units 640 512
  • FLOPS - 1648 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 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, VP8, VP9, 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. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
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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