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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Dimensity 1080 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1080 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 1080 28
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1080 22
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1080 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1080 43
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1080

  • Dimensity 1080 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 19.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (3100 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 45.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (751 K vs 517 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • A14 Bionic Support 26.30% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (34.1 vs 27 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 766
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 2252
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 1080
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @120Hz 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 2x 2.6 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 256 KB 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 -
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz -
  • Execution units 5 4
  • Shading units 64 -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

27 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

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 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • 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 GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
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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