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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Dimensity 8020 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8020 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 8020 35
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8020 31
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8020 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8020 48
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8020 A14 Bionic
CPU 169130 203493
GPU 238983 284242
Memory 130727 131989
UX 148460 131211
Total score 687300 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 19.23% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8020 (3100 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8020 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 9.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8020 (751 K vs 687 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8020 826
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8020 3315
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 8020
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 8020
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 8020
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 8020
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 8020
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 8020
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 8020
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 Full HD+ @144 Hz, QHD+ @90 Hz 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 4x 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 - ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall -
  • GPU frequency - -
  • 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 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 570 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 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 8020

CPU
35%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
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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