Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs A15 Bionic Chip

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus vs A15 Bionic Chip 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
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Plus A15 Bionic Chip
CPU 291317 209204
GPU 430867 351594
Memory 218270 118044
UX 206140 130276
Total score 1146594 809118
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 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 41.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,147 K vs 809 K).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 0.94% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 Plus (3230 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 13.76% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 9000 Plus (4266 vs 3750 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
A15 Bionic Chip 1743

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
A15 Bionic Chip 4844

Image compression

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 224.8

Face detection

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 43.1

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 136.1

Machine learning

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 104.9

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 49.3

HTML 5

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 5.64

SQLite

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
A15 Bionic Chip 1270

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz -
  • 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

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB 32 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 15 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MC10 Apple GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 3 -
  • GPU frequency - 1200 MHz
  • Execution units 10 5
  • Shading units 512 640
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3750 MHz 4266 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, 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 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, QZSS
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 A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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