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Apple A12X Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 47 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 53 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,341
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
8C / 8T · 3.62 GHz
2,876
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,745
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
8C / 8T · 3.62 GHz
8,987
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X
1,008
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
ARM Immortalis-G925 MC12
2,850

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
FamilyApple A series (27)Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)MediaTek Dimensity 9400 (1)
ArchitectureA12Cortex-X5 / -X4 / -A725
Technology7 nm3 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A10X FusionMediaTek Dimensity 9300
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
1x Cortex-X925
3.62 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
3x Cortex-X4
2.80 GHz
Core Cluster 3: 4x Cortex-A720
2.10 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
GPU nameApple A12XARM Immortalis-G925 MC12
GPU frequency1.13 GHz1.00 GHz
CUs / Shader28 / 44812 /
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory6 GB
Technology7 nm3 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineMediatek APU
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPSMediaTek APU ? @ ? TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
LPDDR5X-9600 (76.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB16 GB
Memory channels24
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
TDP15 W12 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicMediaTek Dimensity 9400
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv9-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q4/2024
Release price
Documents

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Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
MediaTek Dimensity 9400
8C / 8T · 3.62 GHz

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