MediaTek Dimensity 9000 vs Apple M3 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X23x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A7104x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency
3050 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache
1024 KB
256 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
L3 cache
0
-
Process
4 nm
3 nm
TDP
4 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Transistor count
-
25

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G710 MP10
Apple M3 GPU
GPU frequency
850 MHz
1520 MHz
Execution units
10
-
Shading units
96
144
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
3750 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
60 Gbit/s
102.4 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
-
Storage type
UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3200 x 1440
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 48MP
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- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
-
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 7000 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Nov 2021
Oct 2023
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
MT6983
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Official page
-

AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
18 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,084,030
2,143,122
Geekbench 6
1,599
3,037
Geekbench 6
4,199
11,776
FP32 (float)
1,632
3,502