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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 31
A17 Pro 97
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 49
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 A17 Pro
CPU 170589 399992
GPU 233643 620081
Memory 118786 265579
UX 145445 346005
Total score 668463 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1200

  • Dimensity 1200 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 26% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3780 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 144.09% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (1,632 K vs 668 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
  • A17 Pro Support 76.55% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (51.2 vs 29 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 168 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
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 32 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 6 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 - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 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) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 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. 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 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
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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