Apple M4 (iPad) vs MediaTek Dimensity 900

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M4 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to MediaTek Dimensity 900 (35/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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MediaTek Dimensity 900
MediaTek

MediaTek Dimensity 900

35/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 35.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 32.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Graphics test 26 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 63 FPS —
Section 2 56 FPS —
Section 3 43 FPS —
Stability 71% 99%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
NPU theoretical performance 38 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine MediaTek APU 3.0

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
CPU 915032 266132
GPU 1135331 71827
Memory 349968 150753
Total score 3116013 671241
UX 715682 182529

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Architecture 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz – 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A786x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4410 MHz 2400 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 6 nanometers
Transistor count 28 billion 10 billion
L3 cache — 2 MB
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 4 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 2770 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 1250 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 501.5 MB/sec 120 MB/sec
Background blur 54.3 images/sec 7.34 images/sec
Edge detection 2.32 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 124.8 images/sec 1.74 images/sec
Feature matching 0.73 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 0.11 Gpixels/sec
HDR 461.1 Mpixels/sec 76.9 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 305.6 pages/sec 64.5 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.7 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 416.7 images/sec 45.3 images/sec
PDF Renderer 317.1 Mpixels/sec 73.6 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4657.1 FPS 403.2 FPS
Photo processing 139.8 images/sec 21.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.9 Mpixels/sec 3.23 Mpixels/sec
Samples 7 tests 5 tests
Stereo matching 164.7 Gpixels/sec 7.08 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
FLOPS 3763.2 Gigaflops 230.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1470 MHz 900 MHz
OpenCL version — 2.0
Pipelines — 4
Shading units — 32
Total shaders — 128
Vulkan version — 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Announced May 2024 May 2021
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number — MT6877
Official page — MediaTek Dimensity 900 official site
Successor — -MediaTek Dimensity 7050

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 120 Gb/s —
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 7500 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 2520 x 1080
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-07-01(Aoul) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2024-07-10(Vlad) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2025-09-13(Yusuf baser) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-04-26(BG-M4-User) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-03(Astreeek) AnTuTu —
📘 2023-12-05(real estate agent) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2023-12-21(RAHHHHH) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2024-02-11(bork) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-04-07(Vishnu) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-01-23(Adit Tia Pratama) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-02-10(Arun) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-04(Jeans) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
Data manipulation score — 9360
Phones tested — 2 models
Photo editing score — 30860
Video editing score — 8031
Web score — 13144
Writing score — 19188

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 900
1.Samsung Galaxy M53 — 680628
2.Oppo Find X5 Lite — 671241
3.Infinix Zero 5G — 655806
Phones with Dimensity 900 — AnTuTu v11

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