Overview - Dimensity 9400 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9400 vs Apple A18 Pro 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 9400 91
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9400 94
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9400 89
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9400 91
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9400 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 600293 475293
GPU 1194784 719585
Memory 408283 259838
UX 443652 385136
Total score 2647012 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 8.19% higher GPU clock speed than Apple A18 Pro (1612 vs 1490 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 42.21% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 Pro (5333 vs 3750 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 43.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Apple A18 Pro (2,647 K vs 1,840 K).

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 9400.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9400 2876
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9400 8972
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 12 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 3 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 8.2 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 5th gen Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1612 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units 192 128
  • FLOPS 7428 Gigaflops 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 3.2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 5333 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 60 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 NPU 890 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 7 7
  • Bluetooth 5.4 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 9400

CPU
91%
GPU
94%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
87%
GPU
94%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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