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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Dimensity 8050 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8050 vs A17 Pro SoCs by Mediatek and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Dimensity 8050 39
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8050 31
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8050 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8050 50
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8050 A17 Pro
CPU 217200 399992
GPU 208098 620081
Memory 138670 265579
UX 138035 346005
Total score 702003 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 26% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8050 (3780 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8050 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8050 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8050 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 132.43% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8050 (1,632 K vs 702 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8050.
  • A17 Pro Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 8050 (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8050 964
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8050 3261
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 96%

Graphics test 27 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display QHD+ @ 90 Hz, FHD+ @ 168 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 9 6
  • Shading units 144 128
  • FLOPS 980 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 570 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

MediaTek Dimensity 8050

CPU
39%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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