Apple A11 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Frequency
2390 MHz
4210 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
64 KB
-
L2 cache
0
-
Process
10 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4.3
-
TDP
8 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
16 MB

Graphics

GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
1750 MHz
Execution units
3
-
Shading units
64
128
Vulkan version
1.0
1.4
OpenCL version
2.1
3.0
DirectX version
12
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
5333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
85.3 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
-
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
-
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 12
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 10700 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Sep 2017
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W72
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Official page
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AI

NPU
-
MediaTek NPU 990
Theoretical Performance
-
100 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
409,550
4,011,932
Geekbench 6
1,097
3,781
Geekbench 6
2,357
12,189
FP32 (float)
409
5,376