Overview - Dimensity 1200 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1200 vs Apple A18 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 34
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1200 30
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1200 79
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1200 48
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1200 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 170589 475293
GPU 233643 719585
Memory 118786 259838
UX 145445 385136
Total score 668463 1839852
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 13.76% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 Pro (4266 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.29% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (1490 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 175.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (1,840 K vs 668 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 106.90% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (60 vs 29 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 925
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1200 3246
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Dimensity 1200 171.75
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Dimensity 1200 32.25
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 1200 51.5
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Dimensity 1200 51.65
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 1200 27.35
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Dimensity 1200 3.76
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Dimensity 1200 931.9
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
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

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache 32 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.32 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 9 -
  • Shading units 144 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • 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 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 19 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4700 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 1600 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 1200

CPU
34%
GPU
30%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
99%
GPU
100%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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