Dimensity 9200 vs A14 Bionic

We compared the 8-core MediaTek Dimensity 9200 (Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11) with the older 6-core Apple A14 Bionic (Apple A14 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9200
  • Performs 4.2x better in floating-point computations
  • Supports 100% higher memory bandwidth (68.2 against 34.1 GB/s)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Has a smaller size transistor (4 versus 5 nm)
  • Shows better (up to 32%) AnTuTu 11 score – 1755K vs 1326K
  • Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
  • Higher GPU frequency (~30%)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
1755232
1326975
CPU 549345 364692
GPU 500902 311592
Memory 271291 180518
UX 433694 470169
Total score 1755232 1326975
Samples [4 tests] [55 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A14 Bionic +20%
2095
Multi-Core Score
A14 Bionic +22%
5297
Asset compression 204.3 MB/sec 182.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 147 pages/sec 110.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 170.8 Mpixels/sec 123.2 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 127.6 images/sec 104.9 images/sec
HDR 153.7 Mpixels/sec 164.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 16.9 images/sec 19.1 images/sec
Photo processing 44.2 images/sec 50.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 5.32 Mpixels/sec 5.36 Mpixels/sec
Samples 3 tests 22 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A14 Bionic +70%
16822
Background blur 15.8 images/sec 27.6 images/sec
Face detection 7.83 images/sec 35.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.57 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.58 Gpixels/sec 0.83 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 20.6 Gpixels/sec 50.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 2042.2 FPS 1772.1 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 3 tests 17 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score 1351 -
Graphics test 10 FPS -
3DMark Solar Bay
5571
2767
Score 5571 2767
Stability - 85%
Graphics test 21 FPS 11 FPS
Section 1 23 FPS 13 FPS
Section 2 22 FPS 10 FPS
Section 3 19 FPS 8 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
3565
2229
Score 3565 2229
Stability 80% 86%
Graphics test 21 FPS 13 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 15272 -
Video editing score 5353 -
Data manipulation score 13696 -
Photo editing score 15932 -
Writing score 18803 -
Phones tested Less than 3 -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
MediaTek Dimensity 9200
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-12 (Shigetora)AnTuTu 111811839
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-06 (Geoff Jan)AnTuTu 111405303
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-06 (TuαΊ₯n Nguyα»…n)AnTuTu 111755232
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-19 (ColorOS 15)Geekbench 6 GPU9624
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-19 (ColorOS 15)Geekbench 6 CPU1732 / 4274
Apple A14 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-13 (Barelpunch)AnTuTu 111200682
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-12 (Z0tacxyz)AnTuTu 111294739
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Timur)AnTuTu 111199214
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (kudryash)AnTuTu 111196958
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-04 (Stelle)AnTuTu 111288870

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Dimensity 9200 and A14 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X3
3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Frequency 3050 MHz 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 8 MB -
Process 4 nanometers 5 nanometers
Transistor count 17 billion 11.8 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 7 W 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Valhall 4th gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 981 MHz 1278 MHz
Pipelines 11 4
Shading units 128 64
Total shaders 1408 256
FLOPS 2762.5 Gigaflops 654.3 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 3.0 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 690 Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance - 11 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 68.2 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP -
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem MediaTek T800 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7900 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 4200 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced November 2022 September 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number MT6985 APL1W01
Official page MediaTek Dimensity 9200 official site -
Successor - MediaTek Dimensity 9500 - Apple A19 Pro

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