Overview - Dimensity 1000 Plus Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1000 Plus vs A14 Bionic SoCs by Mediatek and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-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
Dimensity 1000 Plus 31
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1000 Plus 26
A14 Bionic 47
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1000 Plus 75
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1000 Plus 44
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1000 Plus A14 Bionic
CPU 157984 203493
GPU 197648 284242
Memory 78051 131989
UX 87037 131211
Total score 520720 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 19.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3100 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1000 Plus (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1000 Plus (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 44.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1000 Plus (751 K vs 521 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1000 Plus.
  • A14 Bionic Support 14.16% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1000 Plus (34.1 vs 29.87 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 766
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 2852
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 166.4
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 28.2
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 45.2
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 46.9
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 27.8
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 3.53
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 883.8
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 22 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache 0.512 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall -
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz -
  • Execution units 9 4
  • Shading units 144 -
  • FLOPS 800 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.87 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

CPU
31%
GPU
26%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
47%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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