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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - A17 Pro Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A17 Pro vs Dimensity 8300 SoCs by Apple and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-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
A17 Pro 94
Dimensity 8300 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A17 Pro 97
Dimensity 8300 58
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A17 Pro 89
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A17 Pro 93
Dimensity 8300 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A17 Pro Dimensity 8300
CPU 399992 282796
GPU 620081 542690
Memory 265579 328720
UX 346005 249840
Total score 1631657 1404046
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 12.84% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8300 (3780 vs 3350 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8300 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 16.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8300 (1,632 K vs 1,404 K).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 0.14% higher GPU clock speed than A17 Pro (1400 vs 1398 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 33.20% higher memory bandwidth than A17 Pro (68.2 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A17 Pro 2999
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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A17 Pro 7779
Dimensity 8300 4886

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 3 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 19 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A17 GPU Mali-G615 MP6
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 6 6
  • Shading units 128 -
  • FLOPS 2147.2 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support - -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
97%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%

MediaTek Dimensity 8300

CPU
57%
GPU
58%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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