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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - A17 Pro Vs Dimensity 9300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A17 Pro vs Dimensity 9300 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 9300 92
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A17 Pro 97
Dimensity 9300 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A17 Pro 89
Dimensity 9300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A17 Pro 93
Dimensity 9300 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A17 Pro Dimensity 9300
CPU 399992 485064
GPU 620081 899463
Memory 265579 357691
UX 346005 312866
Total score 1631657 2055084
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 16.31% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9300 (3780 vs 3250 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 7.54% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 9300 (1398 vs 1300 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 9300 (3 vs 4 nm).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9300

  • Dimensity 9300 has 50.00% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4800 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 25.95% better AnTuTu 9 score than A17 Pro (2,055 K vs 1,632 K ).
  • Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than A17 Pro.
  • Dimensity 9300 Support 50.00% higher memory bandwidth than A17 Pro (76.8 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A17 Pro 2999
Dimensity 9300 2265

Multi-Core Score

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A17 Pro 7779
Dimensity 9300 7995

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 116 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4k@120Hz, WQHD@180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - Yes
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3250 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
    1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 18 MB
  • Process 3 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 19 Billion 22.7 Billion
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A17 GPU Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 6 12
  • Shading units 128 192
  • FLOPS 2147.2 Gigaflops 5990.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDRLPDDR5T
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 790
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 - LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • 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 9300

CPU
92%
GPU
95%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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