MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs Apple M1 iPad

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC MediaTek Dimensity 9500 MediaTek

SOC Apple M1 iPad Apple

CPU

Architecture

1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro

4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm

Frequency

4210 MHz

3200 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.5-A

L3 cache

16 MB

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Process

3 nm

5 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

L1 cache

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192 KB

L2 cache

—

Transistor count

—

TDP

—

14 W

Graphics

GPU name

Mali-G1 Ultra MP12

Apple M1 GPU

GPU frequency

1750 MHz

1278 MHz

Shading units

128

Vulkan version

1.4

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OpenCL version

3.0

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DirectX version

12.1

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Execution units

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4X

Memory frequency

5333 MHz

4266 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

85.3 Gb/s

68.25 Gbit/s

NPU

MediaTek NPU 990

Apple Neural Engine

Theoretical Performance

100 TOPS

11 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

NVMe

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

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Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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)

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Yes

Max display resolution

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2732 x 2048

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

LTE Cat. 18

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 10700 Mbps

Up to 7500 Mbps

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Upload speed

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Up to 2500 Mbps

Info

Announced

Sep 2025

Nov 2020

Class

Flagship

Official page

↗

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Model number

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APL1102

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

4,011,932

1,709,057

Geekbench 6

3,781

2,304

Geekbench 6

12,189

8,422

FP32 (float)

5,376

2,617

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