Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus 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 9000 Plus 53
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Plus A14 Bionic
CPU 291317 203493
GPU 430867 284242
Memory 218270 131989
UX 206140 131211
Total score 1146594 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 3.23% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 75.81% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 52.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,147 K vs 751 K).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 75.95% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (60 vs 34.1 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display 2K @ 144 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB 128 KB
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB 8 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MC10 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 3 -
  • GPU frequency - -
  • Execution units 10 4
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

CPU
53%
GPU
50%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A14 Bionic

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