78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 820

78

Points
Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 Apple A18
CPU 125662 421143
GPU 125708 615010
Memory 77949 178670
UX 106547 345874
Total score 435866 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 55.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (4040 vs 2600 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 55.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (1398 vs 900 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 258.07% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (1,561 K vs 436 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
Apple A18

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
Apple A18

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 80 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 1x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP 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 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 - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18

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