Overview - Dimensity 1000 Plus Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1000 Plus vs Apple A18 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 26
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1000 Plus 21
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1000 Plus 75
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1000 Plus 41
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1000 Plus Apple A18
CPU 157984 421143
GPU 197648 615010
Memory 78051 178670
UX 87037 345874
Total score 520720 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 55.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (4040 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 100.96% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 199.72% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1000 Plus (1,561 K vs 521 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1000 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 766
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 2852
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 166.4
Apple A18

Face detection

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 28.2
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 45.2
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 46.9
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 27.8
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 3.53
Apple A18

SQLite

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 883.8
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 22 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

64%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 0.512 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 9 -
  • Shading units 144 128
  • FLOPS 800 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.87 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • 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
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, 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 - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4700 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

CPU
26%
GPU
21%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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