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Apple A15 Bionic

vs

MediaTek Dimensity 7500

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple A15 Bionic and MediaTek Dimensity 7500 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Apple A15 Bionic

Higher Frequency: 3230 MHz (3230 MHz vs Up to 2.6GHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 7500

Higher Technology: 4 nm (5 nm vs 4 nm)
Newer Launch Date: May 2026 (September 2021 vs May 2026)

Basic

Apple

Label Name

MediaTek

September 2021

Launch Date

May 2026

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

SmartPhone Mid range

TSMC

Manufacturing

APL1W07

Model Name

MediaTek Dimensity 7500

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche, 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

4x Arm C1 Pro @ 2.6GHz + 4x Arm C1 Nano @ 2.0GHz

Cores

Octa (8)

5 nm

Technology

4 nm

3230 MHz

Frequency

Up to 2.6GHz

Transistor count

GPU Specifications

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Arm Mali-G625 MC2

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

128

Shading units

Execution units

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

Primary up to 1344 x 2800; secondary up to 1300 x 1200

Connectivity

Cellular specific functions

SA & NSA modes; SA Option2, NSA Option3 / 3a / 3x, NR TDD and FDD bands, DSS, NR DL 3CC 220MHz bandwidth, 4x4 MIMO, 256QAM NR UL 2CC, R16 UL Enhancement, 2x2 MIMO, 256QAM VoNR / EPS fallback, Smart Network Suite 3.0

Cellular technologies

2G-5G multi-mode, 5G/4G CA, 5G/4G FDD / TDD, CDMA2000 1x/EVDO Rev. A (SRLTE), EDGE, GSM, TD-SCDMA

Downlink functions

NR DL 3CC 220MHz bandwidth, 4x4 MIMO

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

5.2Gbps

Modem power saving technologies

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+

Uplink functions

256QAM NR UL 2CC, R16 UL Enhancement, 2x2 MIMO

Wi-Fi antenna

Up to 2T2R

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

4G FDD / TDD, 4G-CA

Yes

5G support

5G FDD / TDD, SA / NSA, 5G-CA

5.0

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 5.4, Bluetooth Hybrid Coexistence, Bluetooth Long Range, Xtra Range 3.0

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 6E (a/b/g/n/ac/ax)

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, BeiDou, Glonass, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

Up to 6400Mbps

4x 16 Bit

Memory Bus

Miscellaneous

12 MB

L2 Cache

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

Max camera resolution

200MP

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1 2-lane

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K30 (3840 x 2160) - 10 bit

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

Encode: H.264, HEVC; Decode: H.264, HEVC, VP-9

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K HDR

Display refresh rate

Primary up to 144Hz; secondary up to 120Hz

Dual display support

Secondary display up to 1300 x 1200 @ 120Hz

6 W

TDP

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

Armv9.3-A

AI features

Generative AI support, global AI ecosystem support, on-device speech recognition, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, contextual replies, notification summarization

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 850