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MediaTek MT8168 vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 9 %

MediaTek MT8168

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 6 %

MediaTek MT8168

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

188

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

520

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

165

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

524

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

ARM Mali-G52 MP1

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
Family	Mediatek MT-Serie (72)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	MediaTek MT816x 12nm (1)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Cortex-A53	M1
Technology	12 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Cortex-A53 2.00 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
GPU name	ARM Mali-G52 MP1	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.85 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	1 / 16	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology	16 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2020	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
Memory	LPDDR4X-1866 (14.9 GB/s) LPDDR4-1600 (12.8 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	3 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
TDP	3 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		20 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek MT8168	Apple M1
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2020	Q4/2020
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of MediaTek MT8168 is 2.1 stars (7 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (768 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek MT8168
4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★