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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Dimensity 8100 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8100 38
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8100 82
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8100 54
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8100 A14 Bionic
CPU 204875 203493
GPU 311503 284242
Memory 130636 131989
UX 161518 131211
Total score 808532 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100

  • Dimensity 8100 has 200.05% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 7.67% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (809 K vs 751 K).
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (51.2 vs 34.1 MHz).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 8.77% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (3100 vs 2850 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 969
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 4081
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 8100
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.85 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 - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 -
  • GPU frequency 912 MHz -
  • Execution units 6 4
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size - 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) APU 580 (multi-core) Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 R16-ready 5G modem -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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