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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Dimensity 1080 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1080 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 1080 28
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1080 22
A17 Pro 97
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1080 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1080 43
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1080 A17 Pro
CPU 143941 399992
GPU 140125 620081
Memory 96692 265579
UX 136066 346005
Total score 516824 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 1080 (3780 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 215.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (1,632 K vs 517 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • A17 Pro Support 89.63% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (51.2 vs 27 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 766
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1080 2252
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @120Hz -
  • 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 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 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 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 19 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 64 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 27 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 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, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • 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 AAC, 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 5.2 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 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A17 Pro

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