Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip 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
A15 Bionic Chip 46
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Dimensity 9400
CPU 209204 600293
GPU 351594 1194784
Memory 118044 408283
UX 130276 443652
Total score 809118 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 12.38% higher CPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (3630 vs 3230 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 34.33% higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (1612 vs 1200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 25.01% higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip (5333 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 40% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 227.15% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (2,647 K vs 809 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Dimensity 9400 8972

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Dimensity 9400

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Dimensity 9400

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Dimensity 9400

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Dimensity 9400

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Dimensity 9400

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Dimensity 9400

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Dimensity 9400

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    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 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture - Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 192
  • FLOPS - 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 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, 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
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
46%
GPU
47%
Memory
50%
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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