MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ vs Apple A16 and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1

With the Dimensity 9000+, Mediatek presents the latest of its smartphone chips. The successor to the Mediatek Dimensity 9000 achieves higher CPU and GPU clock frequencies thanks to better binning. The CPU clock of the prime core (A core) increases from 3.0 to 3.2 GHz. And the ARM Mali-G710 MP10 GPU can now clock at 0.9 GHz (previously 0.85 GHz).

Both are a good improvement over the Dimensity 9000 in theory but the increase in performance should not usually be noticeable in practice. In the end, the overall performance of the Mediatek Dimensity 9000+ is impressive: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is beaten in Geekbench 5 in both the single-core and multi-core benchmarks.

And even Apple's newest SoC (Apple A16 Bionic) is not far away in the multi-core benchmark. In the single-core benchmark, however, the Apple A16 Bionic still has a very comfortable lead.

	Mediatek Dimensity 9000+	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1	Apple A16 Bionic
A-Core	1x Cortex-X2 @ 3.2 GHz	1x Kryo Prime @ 3.2 GHz[/td ]	2x Everest @ 3.46 GHz
B-Core	3x Cortex-A710 @ 2.85 GHz	3x Kryo Gold @ 2.75 GHz
C-Core	4x Cortex-A510 @ 1.80 GHz	4x Kryo Silver @ 2.0 GHz	4x Sawtooth @ 2.02GHz
GPU	ARM Mali-G710 MP10	Qualcomm Adreno 730	Apple A16 (5 GPU cores)
GPU clock	0.9 GHz	0.9 GHz	0.7 GHz
Max. Memory	LPDDR5X-7500	LPDDR5-6400	LPDDR5-6400
Memory bandwidth	60 GB/s	51.2 GB/s	51.2 GB/s
Manufacturing	4 nm	4 nm	4 nm
Geekbench 5 SC	1391	1318	1890
Geekbench 5 MC	4704	4219	5355

Comparison and memory

In comparison, it is noticeable that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is currently behind Mediatek's top model, especially in terms of memory connection. But that should change at the end of the year with the presentation of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

According to Mediatek, the LPDDR5X memory of the Mediatek Dimensity 9000+ should save up to 20 percent compared to normal LPDDR5 memory. With the new A16 Bionic, Apple supports LPDDR5-6400 for the first time, the predecessor had to make do with LPDDR4X-4266.

Competitive Manufacturing

What is particularly striking is that MediaTek, like Apple, can use the most modern manufacturing process with the TSMC N4 (4nm) production. Qualcomm also manufactures its Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 in 4 nm at TSMC.