MediaTek Dimensity 8100 vs Apple M1 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A784x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
2850 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L3 cache
0
-
Process
5 nm
5 nm
TDP
6 W
14 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
L2 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
16

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G610 MP6
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
860 MHz
1278 MHz
Execution units
6
8
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-
Shading units
-
128

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
68.25 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Yes
Storage type
UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
-
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 21
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 4700 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Mar 2022
Nov 2020
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
MT6895Z/TCZA
APL1102
Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
11 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
860,129
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
1,145
2,304
Geekbench 6
3,633
8,422
FP32 (float)
1,309
2,617