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Apple A16 Bionic

vs

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple A16 Bionic and MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Apple A16 Bionic

Higher Frequency: 3460 MHz (3460 MHz vs 4.55 GHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

Higher Technology: 2 nm (4 nm vs 2 nm)
Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2022 vs September 2026)

Basic

Apple

Label Name

MediaTek

September 2022

Launch Date

September 2026

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

SmartPhone Flagship

System Level Cache (SLC)

10 MB

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

APL1W10

Model Name

MT6995

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

2x 4.55 GHz Arm C2-Ultra + 3x 4.35 GHz Arm C2-Pro + 3x 3.10 GHz Arm C2-Pro

Cores

4 nm

Technology

2 nm

3460 MHz

Frequency

4.55 GHz

Transistor count

GPU Specifications

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

128

Shading units

Execution units

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

WQHD+

Connectivity

Cellular specific functions

5G/4G Triple SIM Triple Active, Dual Data, SA and NSA, SA Option 2, NSA Option 3/3a/3x, NR FR1 TDD+FDD, DSS, 256QAM, VoNR, EPS fallback

Cellular technologies

3GPP Release 17, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD/TDD, 4G FDD/TDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, EDGE, GSM

Downlink functions

Sub-6 DL 5CC 350 MHz, Release 17 Enhancement, low-band DL 4x4 MIMO

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

>7.4 Gbps

Modem power saving technologies

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 2.0, Release 17 Power Saving Enhancement

Uplink functions

Sub-6 UL 2CC 200 MHz, Release 17 Enhancement, FDD UL 2x2 MIMO, PC2

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

Yes

5G support

Yes, 5G-Advanced

5.3

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 6.2, dual Bluetooth engine, up to 12 Mbps

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Triple Band Triple Concurrency, up to 7.3 Gbps

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR6 / LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

10667 MT/s

4x 16 Bit

Memory Bus

Miscellaneous

16 MB

L2 Cache

8.5 MB (2x 2 MB + 3x 1 MB + 3x 512 KB)

L3 cache

16 MB

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

Audio codecs

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

200 MP

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 5.0

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 60 FPS; 4K at 120 FPS with EIS; 4K at 240 FPS slow-motion; 4K at 60 FPS HDR

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

Video codecs

VVC (H.266), HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), VP9, AV1, MV-HEVC

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60 FPS, 10-bit

Display refresh rate

180 Hz

8 W

TDP

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

Armv9.3-A

AI features

Native AI Architecture, Dimensity Agentic AI Engine, AI Compute Fusion, Neural Graphics Architecture, AI Imaging Fusion Architecture, on-device MoE inference, edge-training LLM, KV-cache compression

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 1090 + Super Efficient NPU 2.0