MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 is no longer so far from the A15 in terms of raw power
The latest generation mobile processors are now all out: Samsung’s Exynos 2200 (with its AMD-signed RDNA2 GPU), Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Apple’s A15, and the latest, Dimensity 9000 from MediaTek. At the time of doing the accounts, the Ice Universe site had the great idea of comparing the respective raw powers of these chips using the Geekbench 5 benchmarking tool. The results are edifying and challenge some received ideas. Thus the Exynos 2200, however announced as the revival of Samsung’s “house” processor, is still lagging behind, and not just a little since its single-core score is only 1109 points, a little less than the Snapdragon 888 yet released a year earlier. Even in multi-core processing, the 2200 barely manages to match that same 888.
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In third place in this ranking of the chip with the biggest… power (what were you little rascals thinking?), it’s quite a surprise since we find the very recent Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 from Qualcomm. With 1231 points in single core and 3752 points in multi-core, the new chip from the American founder still seems to be a big generation behind the Apple A15 (500 pts more in single-core and 1000 points more in multi!) . The other big surprise that comes from the disappointing bench of the 8 Gen 1 is the very good score of the Dimensity 9000. We won’t go so far as to say that the MediaTek SoC is sticking to the wheel of the A15 (still close to 500 pts difference in single core), but the Dimensity 9000 is the only competitor to the A15 that passes the 4000 point mark in multi-core, and by far moreover (4410 pts).
That being said, it should still be remembered that Apple has another mobile chip in its catalog with Apple Silicon (which equips the 12-inch iPad Pro and a derivative of which will also undoubtedly equip the “Apple VR” headset) , which Ice Universe seems to forget a little. Because there, the difference is even more clearly in favor of the Apple processor (up to 7000 pts in multi-core). We don’t talk about power consumption (TDP) and the performance/consumer ratio either, an area where Apple’s chips have no real competition today. Moreover, the Dimensity 9000 comes out a few months away from the next version of Apple Silicon. MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 is no longer “so far”, but still far all the same…
