MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Apple M1 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
3250 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
-
Process
4 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
Transistor count
-
16
TDP
-
14 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1278 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.2
-
DirectX version
12
-
Execution units
-
8
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
68.25 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
11 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
-
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- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Yes
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 18
Upload speed
-
Up to 2500 Mbps
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
1,617
2,304
Geekbench 6
6,406
8,422
FP32 (float)
2,329
2,617