Quick/Comparisons
The MediaTek Dimensity 9500s takes the lead in gaming performance with a score of 85, outpacing the Apple A15 Bionic's 48.
Both the Apple A15 Bionic and MediaTek Dimensity 9500s deliver excellent battery life, with identical scores of 92.
Since neither product's AI performance is explicitly stated, we cannot declare a winner in this use case.
71 | CPU Performance | 92 |
48 | Gaming Performance | 85 |
92 | Battery life |
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| TSMC | Manufacturer | TSMC |
| 5 nanometers | Process Node | 3 nanometers |
| 6 | CPU Cores | 8 |
| Apple A15 GPU | GPU Model | Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12 |
| Apple Neural Engine | NPU Performance | MediaTek NPU |
| 1413275 | Apple A19 | 3041307 |
| 410975 | CPU | 894922 |
| 370837 | GPU | 1079363 |
| 164151 | Memory | 437461 |
| 467312 | UX | 629561 |
| 1413275 | Total score | 3041307 |
| 2303 | Single-Core Score | 2877 |
| 5725 | Multi-Core Score | 9236 |
| 208.1 MB/sec | Asset compression | 374.1 MB/sec |
| 122.9 pages/sec | HTML 5 Browser | 259.5 pages/sec |
| 139.1 Mpixels/sec | PDF Renderer | 301.7 Mpixels/sec |
| 125.1 images/sec | Image detection | 231.8 images/sec |
| 179.4 Mpixels/sec | HDR | 267.6 Mpixels/sec |
| 22.3 images/sec | Background blur | 37.9 images/sec |
| 53.2 images/sec | Photo processing | 86.8 images/sec |
| 6.26 Mpixels/sec | Ray tracing | 10 Mpixels/sec |
| 33 tests | Samples | 5 tests |
| 20211 | Compute Score (GPU) | 24941 |
| 35.4 images/sec | Background blur | 45.3 images/sec |
| 44.8 images/sec | Face detection | 25 images/sec |
| 0.62 Gpixels/sec | Horizon detection | 0.94 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.82 Gpixels/sec | Edge detection | 1.22 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.84 Gpixels/sec | Gaussian blur | 1.65 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.3 Gpixels/sec | Feature matching | 0.29 Gpixels/sec |
| 71.1 Gpixels/sec | Stereo matching | 72.9 Gpixels/sec |
| 2198.2 FPS | Particle physics | 3653.8 FPS |
| Metal | API | Vulkan |
| 18 tests | Samples | 2 tests |
| — | 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | — |
| 3765 | Score | — |
| 71% | Stability | — |
| 14 FPS | Graphics test | — |
| 3765 | 3DMark Solar Bay | — |
| 2854 | Score | — |
| 17 FPS | Graphics test | — |
| — | Section 1 | — |
| — | Section 2 | — |
| — | Section 3 | — |
| 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard | Architecture | 1x 3.73 GHz – Cortex-X925 3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4 4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720 |
| 6 | Cores | 8 |
| 3230 MHz | Frequency | 3730 MHz |
| ARMv8.5-A | Instruction set | ARMv9.2-A |
| 256 KB | L1 cache | — |
| 12 MB | L2 cache | 2 MB |
| 5 nanometers | Process | 3 nanometers |
| TSMC | Manufacturing | TSMC |
| LPDDR4X | Memory type | LPDDR5X |
| 2133 MHz | Memory frequency | 5333 MHz |
| 4x 16 Bit | Bus | 4x 16 Bit |
| 34.1 Gb/s | Max bandwidth | 85.3 Gb/s |
| 6 GB | Max size | 24 GB |
| LTE Cat. 24 | 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 |
| Yes | 5G support | Yes |
| Up to 7500 Mbps | Download speed | Up to 7300 Mbps |
| Up to 3000 Mbps | Upload speed | — |
| 6 | Wi-Fi | 7 |
| 5 | Bluetooth | 5.4 |
| GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
| — | Modem | — |
| NVMe | Storage type | UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 |
| — | Max camera resolution | 1x 320MP, 3x 36MP |
| 4K at 60FPS | Video capture | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| 4K at 60FPS | Video playback | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| - H.264 - H.265 - VP8 - VP9 - Motion JPEG | Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP9 |
| - AAC - AAX - AAX+ - AC-3 - AIFF - CAF - E-AC-3 - MP3 - MP4 - WAV | Audio codecs | - AAC LC - FLAC - HE-AACv1 - HE-AACv2 - MP3 |
| Apple Neural Engine | Neural processor (NPU) | MediaTek NPU |
| September 2021 | Announced | January 2026 |
| Flagship | Class | Flagship |
| APL1W07 | Model number | MT6991Z/ECZB |
| Apple A15 GPU | GPU name | Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12 |
| Apple Bionic GPU | Architecture | Valhall 5th gen |
| 1338 MHz | GPU frequency | 1612 MHz |
| 5 | Pipelines | 12 |
| 128 | Shading units | 128 |
| 640 | Total shaders | 1536 |
| 1712.6 Gigaflops | FLOPS | 4952.1 Gigaflops |