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Apple A9 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8450

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister 1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
Frequency 1850 MHz 3250 MHz
Cores 2 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB
L2 cache 0 1 MB
L3 cache 0 6 MB
Process 14 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 2
TDP 5 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name PowerVR GT7600 Mali-G720 MP7
GPU frequency 650 MHz 1300 MHz
Execution units 6
Shading units 32 128
Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
OpenCL version 1.2 3.2
DirectX version 11 12
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4 LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 1333 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple M9
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 2960 x 1440
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265 - 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. 6
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 450 Mbps Up to 5170 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 4.2 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Sep 2015 May 2025
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number APL1022
Official page Official Link ↗
AI
NPU MediaTek NPU 880
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 285954 1675507
Geekbench 6 Single Core 623 1617
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 957 6406
FP32 (float) 249 2329