Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 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
A16 Bionic chip 51
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 54
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 64
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 9400
CPU 247110 600293
GPU 408357 1194784
Memory 162944 408283
UX 146541 443652
Total score 964952 2647012
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 20.01% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 9400 (6400 vs 5333 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 4.91% higher CPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip (3630 vs 3460 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 15.31% higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip (1612 vs 1398 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 25% smaller sized transistor than A16 Bionic chip (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 174.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (2,647 K vs 965 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than A16 Bionic chip.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 9400 8972

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 9400

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 9400

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 9400

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 9400

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 9400

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 9400

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 9400

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 192
  • FLOPS - 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 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 NPU 890
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 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 3500 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 A16 Bionic

CPU
51%
GPU
54%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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