Overview - Dimensity 1000 Plus Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1000 Plus 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 1000 Plus 31
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1000 Plus 26
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1000 Plus 75
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1000 Plus 44
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1000 Plus A17 Pro
CPU 157984 399992
GPU 197648 620081
Memory 78051 265579
UX 87037 346005
Total score 520720 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 45.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3780 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3 vs 7 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 213.35% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1000 Plus (1,632 K vs 521 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1000 Plus.
  • A17 Pro Support 71.41% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1000 Plus (51.2 vs 29.87 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 766
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 2852
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 166.4
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 28.2
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 45.2
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 46.9
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 27.8
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 3.53
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Dimensity 1000 Plus 883.8
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 22 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 0.512 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 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 800 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.87 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 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 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. 18 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

CPU
31%
GPU
26%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A17 Pro

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