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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 7030 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 7030 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 7030 33
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 7030 21
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 7030 79
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 7030 44
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 7030 Apple A18
CPU 163674 421143
GPU 81587 615010
Memory 121193 178670
UX 151408 345874
Total score 517862 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 61.6% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7030 (4040 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 39.80% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 7030 (1398 vs 1000 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 134.38% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 7030 (7500 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 7030 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 201.37% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7030 (1,561 K vs 518 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 7030.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 7030 1036
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 7030 2440
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@144Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive, HLG and Dolby Vision -
  • Color Depth 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    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 - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MP3 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 3rd gen Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 3 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • 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
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 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, 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. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6E 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 7030

CPU
33%
GPU
21%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18

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