Apple A12Z Bionic
vs
MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple A12Z Bionic and MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 4 nm (7 nm vs 4 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 3350 MHz (2500 MHz vs 3350 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: May 2023 (March 2020 vs May 2023)

Basic

Apple
Label Name
MediaTek
March 2020
Launch Date
May 2023
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
APL1083
Model Name
MT6985
4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-X3
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
4 nm
2500 MHz
Frequency
3350 MHz
10
Transistor count
17

GPU Specifications

Apple A12Z GPU
GPU name
Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11
1340 MHz
GPU frequency
995 MHz
1.106 TFLOPS
FLOPS
4.2028 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
192
64
Execution units
11
2.0
OpenCL version
-
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
12
DirectX version
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
5
Wi-Fi
7
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
4266 MHz
Memory frequency
8533 MHz
2x 64 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

Apple M12
Neural processor (NPU)
MediaTek APU 690
8 MB
L2 Cache
1 MB
Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC v2, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+
Audio codecs
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
1x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
H.264
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
15 W
TDP
8 W
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
A12Z Bionic
1322
Dimensity 9200 Plus
2093 +58%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
A12Z Bionic
4642
Dimensity 9200 Plus
5576 +20%
FP32 (float)
A12Z Bionic
1084
Dimensity 9200 Plus
4286 +295%