Overview - Dimensity 6100 Plus Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 6100 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 6100 Plus 18
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 6100 Plus 13
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 6100 Plus 79
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 6100 Plus 37
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 6100 Plus Apple A18
CPU 112256 421143
GPU 98184 615010
Memory 66187 178670
UX 84704 345874
Total score 361331 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 83.64% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 6100 Plus (4040 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 6100 Plus (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 6100 Plus (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 6100 Plus (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 331.93% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 6100 Plus (1,561 K vs 361 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 6100 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 6100 Plus 580
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 6100 Plus 1707
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 32 128
  • FLOPS 243 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 12 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem 3GPP Release-16 standard 5G modem Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support - LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 3300 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 5 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 6100 Plus

CPU
18%
GPU
13%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18

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