Mobile processor comparison

Apple A11 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio G90

Compare available catalogue specifications. The page highlights factual differences without declaring an overall winner.

Compared fields 42
Different values 33
Quick factual highlights
Apple A11 Bionic
  • Higher maximum CPU clock
  • Smaller manufacturing process
MediaTek Helio G90
  • More CPU cores
Side-by-side specifications

Detailed comparison

CPU

SpecificationApple A11 BionicMediaTek Helio G90
Architecture 2x 2.39 GHz - Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz - Mistral 2x 2 GHz - Cortex-A766x 2 GHz - Cortex-A55
CPU cores 6 8
Clock speed 2390 MHz 2000 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
Process technology 10 nanometers 12 nanometers
Transistors 4.3 billion Not available
TDP 8 W 5 W

Cache and memory

SpecificationApple A11 BionicMediaTek Helio G90
L1 cache 64 KB Not available
L2 cache 8 MB Not available
Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
Memory bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Maximum bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s Not available
Maximum memory 3 GB 10 GB

Graphics and AI

SpecificationApple A11 BionicMediaTek Helio G90
GPU Apple GPU Mali-G76 MC4
GPU architecture Not available Bifrost
GPU clock Not available 720 MHz
Execution units 3 4
Shaders Not available 64
FLOPS 325 Gigaflops 172.6 Gigaflops
Vulkan 1.0 1.1
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
DirectX 12 12
Neural processor / NPU Neural Engine Da Vinci

Display and media

SpecificationApple A11 BionicMediaTek Helio G90
Maximum display resolution 2436 x 1125 2520 x 1080
Maximum camera resolution 2x 12MP 1x 48MP, 2x 24MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

SpecificationApple A11 BionicMediaTek Helio G90
4G LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 12
5G No No
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

General

SpecificationApple A11 BionicMediaTek Helio G90
Release September 2017 July 2019
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number APL1W72 MT6785
Storage support NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Devices in database Not available 2
Real devices

Phones using these processors

Examples found in the existing device catalogue.

Apple A11 Bionic

4G
Apple iPhone X
Apple

Apple iPhone X

3.5
Smartphone
Display
OLED 16.7M colors 1125 × 2436 pixels (5.80 in…
RAM
3 GB
Storage
64 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 2716 mAh
4G
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
Apple

Apple iPhone 8 Plus

3.9
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16M colors 1080 × 1920 pixels (5.50 i…
RAM
3 GB
Storage
64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 2675 mAh
4G
Apple iPhone 8
Apple

Apple iPhone 8

3.5
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16.7M colors 750 × 1334 pixels (4.70…
RAM
2 GB
Storage
64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB
Battery
Li-Ion 1821 mAh

MediaTek Helio G90

4G
BLU G91 Pro
BLU

BLU G91 Pro

3.8
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16M colors, 60 Hz, 1080 × 2400 pixels…
RAM
6 GB
Storage
128 GB
Battery
Li-Po 5000 mAh
4G
Doogee S96 Pro
Doogee

Doogee S96 Pro

3.3
Smartphone
Display
IPS TFT 16.7M colors, 60 Hz, 720 × 1520 pixel…
RAM
8 GB
Storage
128 GB
Battery
Li-Po 6350 mAh