MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Apple M1 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
4210 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L3 cache
16 MB
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Process
3 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
L2 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
16
TDP
-
14 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
1278 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.4
-
OpenCL version
3.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
-
Execution units
-
8
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
68.25 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 990
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
100 TOPS
11 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
NVMe
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
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Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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
Max display resolution
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2732 x 2048
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10700 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed
-
Up to 2500 Mbps
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
3,781
2,304
Geekbench 6
12,189
8,422
FP32 (float)
5,376
2,617