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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 8100 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8100 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 8100 35
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8100 30
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8100 82
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8100 49
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8100 Apple A18
CPU 204875 421143
GPU 311503 615010
Memory 130636 178670
UX 161518 345874
Total score 808532 1560697
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 70.67% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (6400 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 41.75% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (4040 vs 2850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 53.29% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (1398 vs 912 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8100 (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 93.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8100 (1,561 K vs 809 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 969
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8100 4081
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

71%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.85 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 - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 912 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size - 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • 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
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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 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 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4700 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8100

CPU
35%
GPU
30%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A18

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