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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Dimensity 1050 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1050 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 1050 27
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1050 22
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1050 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1050 43
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1050 A14 Bionic
CPU 137500 203493
GPU 159729 284242
Memory 96303 131989
UX 129591 131211
Total score 523123 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1050

  • Dimensity 1050 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 24% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1050 (3100 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1050 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 43.55% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1050 (751 K vs 523 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1050.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1050 745
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1050 2142
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 1050
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 97%

Graphics test 15 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @144 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive, CUVA HDR-vivid, HLG and Dolby Vision -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC3 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 3 -
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz -
  • Execution units 3 4
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 550 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1050

CPU
27%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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