MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs Apple M1 iPad

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC MediaTek Dimensity 8450 MediaTek

SOC Apple M1 iPad Apple

CPU

Architecture

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm

Frequency

3250 MHz

3200 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.5-A

L2 cache

1 MB

L3 cache

6 MB

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Process

4 nm

5 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

L1 cache

—

192 KB

Transistor count

—

TDP

—

14 W

Graphics

GPU name

Mali-G720 MP7

Apple M1 GPU

GPU frequency

1300 MHz

1278 MHz

Shading units

128

Vulkan version

1.3

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OpenCL version

3.2

—

DirectX version

—

Execution units

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4X

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

68.2 Gbit/s

68.25 Gbit/s

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

Apple Neural Engine

Theoretical Performance

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11 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0

NVMe

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

2732 x 2048

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP, 3x 32MP

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Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

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

Audio codecs

- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

—

Yes

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 5170 Mbps

Up to 7500 Mbps

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

4G support

—

LTE Cat. 18

Upload speed

—

Up to 2500 Mbps

Info

Announced

May 2025

Nov 2020

Class

Mid range

Flagship

Official page

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Model number

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APL1102

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

1,675,507

1,709,057

Geekbench 6

1,617

2,304

Geekbench 6

6,406

8,422

FP32 (float)

2,329

2,617

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.