Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs A16 Bionic chip
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus vs A16 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus
- Dimensity 9000 Plus has 18.82% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,147 K vs 965 K).
- Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth then A16 Bionic chip (60 vs 51.2 MHz).
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
- A16 Bionic chip has 8.13% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 Plus (3460 vs 3200 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 70.67% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 9000 Plus (6400 vs 3750 MHz).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 291317 | 247110 |
| GPU | 430867 | 408357 |
| Memory | 218270 | 162944 |
| UX | 206140 | 146541 |
| Total score | 1146594 | 964952 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | - | 243.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | - | 46.4 images/s |
| Speech recognition | - | 141.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | - | 117.1 images/s |
| Camera shooting | - | 54.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | - | 5.9 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | - | 1430 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
67%
Dimensity 9000+76%
Apple A16Score: 9862
| Stability | 86% | 79% |
| Graphics test | 51 FPS | 59 FPS |
| Score | 8685 | 9862 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus and Apple A16 BionicDisplay
| Max On-Device Display | FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz | - |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2960 x 1440 | - |
| Max External Display | 2K @ 144 Hz | - |
| HDR | HDR10+ Adaptive | - |
| Color Depth | - | - |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
92%
Dimensity 9000+100%
Apple A16
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2 3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510 |
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 2020 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3200 MHz | 3460 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv9-A |
| L1 cache | 1024 KB | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | 3.5 MB | 16 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | - |
| Process | 4 nm | 4 nm |
| Transistor count | - | 16 Billion |
| TDP | 4 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G710 MC10 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Valhall 3 | - |
| GPU frequency | - | - |
| Execution units | 10 | 6 |
| Shading units | 512 | 768 |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5x | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 3750 MHz | 6400 MHz |
| Bus | 4x16 Bit | 4x16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 60 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2960 x 1440 | 2796 x 1290 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP | 1x 48MP |
| 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+ |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 7168 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 2560 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
| Announced Date | July 2022 | September 2022 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | - | APL1W10 |
| Official page | Dimensity 9000 Plus official site | A16 Bionic chip official site |
Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus
73.5
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A16 Bionic
70.5
Review By TenzysTech
