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Dimensity 9200 vs A16 Bionic

Dimensity 9200
VS
A16 Bionic
Dimensity 9200
A16 Bionic

We compared the 8-core MediaTek Dimensity 9200 (Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11) with the older 6-core Apple A16 Bionic (Apple A16 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v10
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (4)

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9200
  • Performs 2x better in floating-point computations
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Supports 33% higher memory bandwidth (68.2 against 51.2 GB/s)
  • Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
  • Higher GPU frequency (~64%)
  • 13% higher CPU clock speed (3460 vs 3050 MHz)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Dimensity 9200
vs
A16 Bionic

AnTuTu 10

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Dimensity 9200 +2%
1482965
A16 Bionic
1446983
CPU 369557 396674
GPU 553034 471025
Memory 278497 237167
UX 281877 342117
Total score 1482965 1446983
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Dimensity 9200
1949
A16 Bionic +35%
2627
Multi-Core Score
Dimensity 9200
5281
A16 Bionic +29%
6838
Asset compression 204.3 MB/sec 236.7 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 147 pages/sec 156.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 170.8 Mpixels/sec 162.1 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 127.6 images/sec 155.8 images/sec
HDR 153.7 Mpixels/sec 207.5 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 16.9 images/sec 26.5 images/sec
Photo processing 44.2 images/sec 77.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 5.32 Mpixels/sec 6.85 Mpixels/sec
Compute Score (GPU)
Promotion

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Dimensity 9200 +25%
12376
A16 Bionic
9874
Stability 94% 79%
Graphics test 73 FPS 59 FPS
Score 12376 9874

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Dimensity 9200 and A16 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X3
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510		 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Cores 8 6
Frequency 3050 MHz 3460 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache - 256 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
L3 cache 8 MB -
Process 4 nanometers 4 nanometers
Transistor count 17 billion 16 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 7 W 8 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture Valhall 4th gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
Pipelines 11 5
Shading units 192 128
Total shaders 2112 640
FLOPS 3590.4 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 690 Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance - 17 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2796 x 1290
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 48MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

Modem MediaTek T800 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7900 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 4200 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced November 2022 September 2022
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number MT6985 APL1W10
Official page MediaTek Dimensity 9200 official site -

Cast your vote

So, which SoC would you choose?
1545 (81.1%)
359 (18.9%)
Total votes: 1904

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Comments

Please give your opinion on the comparison of A16 Bionic and Dimensity 9200, or ask any questions
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Jones Agyemang August 18, 2023 at 12:24 AM
The comparison between MediaTek Dimensity 9200 and Apple's A16 Bionic is particularly intriguing, especially since both are manufactured by TSMC.
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Hossein April 24, 2023 at 10:34 AM
We should actually compare them in a phone not just with the numbers and information. We all know iPhones have great stability and power in gaming. Anyhow for some years later, we couldn't find how really they are different.
+21 Reply
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ItzRandom August 23, 2023 at 07:28 AM
Are you sure iphones have better stability? Well, if that's the case, then why iphones heat up so much that they throttle in 10 mins stress test?
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ItzRandom March 4, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Wait a minute.....73 FPS in 3D mark...WITH 95% STABILITY !!! Apple has a long way to catch up android in gaming 🎮🥱 Maybe next year reaches 67 fps??
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Zhinazhu January 4, 2023 at 10:21 AM
It's hard to believe that Apple lost to MediaTek in terms of GPU, but at least Apple is still stronger than Samsung Exynos, don't be discouraged.
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Jonathan Gerner February 24, 2023 at 06:17 AM
But still, gaming performance is way better in Bionic, antutu score doesn't matter optimization matter 😆😆
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Yur April 10, 2023 at 01:51 PM
Jonathan Gerner, Apple heats up and lags
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some_rndm_dude June 2, 2023 at 05:05 AM
Jonathan Gerner, optimization? lol, with the same resolution on games using High/Ultra High, iPhone heats up very very fast which means poor optimization
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