90

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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 8200 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8200 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 8200 41
Apple A18 93
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8200 39
Apple A18 89
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8200 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8200 55
Apple A18 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8200 Apple A18
CPU 210639 421143
GPU 339646 615010
Memory 139322 178670
UX 160894 345874
Total score 850501 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8200

  • Dimensity 8200 has 70.67% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (6400 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 30.32% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8200 (4040 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8200 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 83.50% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8200 (1,561 K vs 851 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8200 1054
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8200 4010
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 120Hz WQHD+ / 180Hz Full HD+ display support -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive support -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.1 GHz – Cortex A78
    3x 3 GHz – Cortex A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set - ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.2 -
  • 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) MediaTek APU 580(Multi-Core) Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 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 - 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 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6E 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8200

CPU
41%
GPU
39%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
93%
GPU
89%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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