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Apple A12X Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 820

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 2 - 59 %
MediaTek Dimensity 820
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 2 - 50 %
MediaTek Dimensity 820
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,341
MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
820
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,745
MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
2,512
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,124
MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
646
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,718
MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
2,432
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X
1,008
MediaTek Dimensity 820
ARM Mali-G57 MP5
576
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
713,640 pts
MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
407,964 pts

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
FamilyApple A series (27)Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)MediaTek Dimensity 820 (1)
ArchitectureA12Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
Technology7 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Cortex-A76
2.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
2.00 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
GPU nameApple A12XARM Mali-G57 MP5
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader28 / 4485 / 80
Raytracing
Max. displays12
Max. GPU Memory6 GB4 GB
Technology7 nm7 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (17.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
TDP15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 820
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q2/2020
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
MediaTek Dimensity 820
MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

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