Overview - Dimensity 9200 Plus Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9200 Plus 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 9200 Plus 60
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9200 Plus 63
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9200 Plus 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9200 Plus 70
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9200 Plus Apple A18
CPU 290704 421143
GPU 600560 615010
Memory 254170 178670
UX 217772 345874
Total score 1363206 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus

  • Dimensity 9200 Plus has 13.77% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (8533 vs 7500 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 20.6% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9200 Plus (4040 vs 3350 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 9200 Plus (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 14.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 9200 Plus (1,561 K vs 1,363 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 9200 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9200 Plus 1545
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9200 Plus 5421
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability 61%

Graphics test 75 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WQHD @ 144Hz, FHD+ @ 240Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-X3
    3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 17 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Immortalis-G715 MC11 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 4 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 11 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS 4736 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 8533 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 68.3 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 690 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 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 MediaTek T800 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 7 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus

CPU
60%
GPU
63%
Memory
100%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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