Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Dimensity 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 9000
CPU 247110 254411
GPU 408357 384881
Memory 162944 180981
UX 146541 185288
Total score 964952 1005561
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 13.44% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (3460 vs 3050 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 70.67% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 9000 (6400 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 4.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,006 K vs 965 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth than A16 Bionic chip (60 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 9000

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 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 - 3200 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 10
  • Shading units 768 512
  • FLOPS - 1648 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 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 2796 x 1290 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 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 5.3 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 A16 Bionic

CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

MediaTek Dimensity 9000

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