Home / SoC Comparison / MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro or Apple M4 iPad: What's better?

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

vs

Apple M4 iPad

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro and Apple M4 iPad mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

Higher Technology: 2 nm (2 nm vs 3 nm)
Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2026 vs May 2024)

Apple M4 iPad

Higher Frequency: 4400 MHz (4.55 GHz vs 4400 MHz)

Basic

MediaTek

Label Name

Apple

September 2026

Launch Date

May 2024

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

Tablet

10 MB

System Level Cache (SLC)

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

MT6995

Model Name

M4 iPad

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

Architecture

4x 4.4 GHz, 6x 2.88 GHz

Cores

2 nm

Technology

3 nm

4.55 GHz

Frequency

4400 MHz

Transistor count

28 billion

GPU Specifications

Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX

GPU name

Apple M4 GPU

GPU frequency

1470 MHz

Shading units

128

Execution units

WQHD+

Max display resolution

External display up to 6K @ 60Hz

Connectivity

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 specific functions

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

Cellular technologies

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

Downlink functions

>7.4 Gbps

Download speed

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 2.0, Release 17 Power Saving Enhancement

Modem power saving technologies

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

Uplink functions

Yes

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes, 5G-Advanced

5G support

Yes

Bluetooth 6.2, dual Bluetooth engine, up to 12 Mbps

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 6E

GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Memory Specifications

LPDDR6 / LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

10667 MT/s

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

Memory Bus

4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

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

L2 Cache

16 MB

L3 cache

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

200 MP

Max camera resolution

UFS 5.0

Storage type

NVMe

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

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW, AV1 decode

8K at 60 FPS, 10-bit

Video playback

8K H.264,HEVC,ProRes,ProRes RAW,AV1

180 Hz

Display refresh rate

TDP

20 W

Armv9.3-A

Instruction set

ARM-based

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

AI features

MediaTek NPU 1090 + Super Efficient NPU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple Neural Engine