Overview - Dimensity 1300 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 1300 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 1300 35
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 1300 31
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 1300 79
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 1300 48
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 1300 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 181145 475293
GPU 240476 719585
Memory 122105 259838
UX 127295 385136
Total score 671021 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 1300

  • Dimensity 1300 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 1300 (1490 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1300 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 174.19% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1300 (1,840 K vs 671 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1300.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 75.95% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1300 (60 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 1300 975
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 1300 3294
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 28 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @168 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
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 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • 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 34.1 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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. 21 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4700 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 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 1300

CPU
35%
GPU
31%
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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