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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Apple A18
CPU 170589 421143
GPU 233643 615010
Memory 118786 178670
UX 145445 345874
Total score 668463 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 34.67% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (4040 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1200 (7500 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 133.48% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (1,561 K vs 668 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Apple A18

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Apple A18

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 168 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • 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

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 32 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 6 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 - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 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) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 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. 19 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 A18

CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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