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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 A14 Bionic
CPU 170589 203493
GPU 233643 284242
Memory 118786 131989
UX 145445 131211
Total score 668463 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (4266 vs 2133 MHz).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 3.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3100 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 12.34% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (751 K vs 668 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
  • A14 Bionic Support 17.59% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (34.1 vs 29 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 168 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 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 32 KB 128 KB
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB 8 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 6 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 - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 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) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 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. 19 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 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
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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