78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 900

78

Points
Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 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 900 25
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
A14 Bionic 47
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 A14 Bionic
CPU 125384 203493
GPU 125188 284242
Memory 83836 131989
UX 133752 131211
Total score 468160 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900

  • Dimensity 900 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 29.17% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (3100 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 900 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 60.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 900 (751 K vs 468 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
  • A14 Bionic Support 85.33% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 900 (34.1 vs 18.4 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 -
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz -
  • Execution units 4 4
  • Shading units 48 -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 18.4 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 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 900

CPU
25%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
47%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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