Overview - Dimensity 720 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 720 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 720 16
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 720 11
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 720 75
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 720 34
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 720 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 94857 475293
GPU 73751 719585
Memory 64277 259838
UX 61339 385136
Total score 294224 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.29% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (1490 vs 850 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 720 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 525.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (1,840 K vs 294 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 720.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 251.49% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 (60 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 720 523
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 720 1707
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Dimensity 720 98.5
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Dimensity 720 14.3
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 720 31.3
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Dimensity 720 27
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 720 14.9
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Dimensity 720 2
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Dimensity 720 510.9
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 90 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10, HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

50%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 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 - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC3 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 3 -
  • Shading units 48 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC 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. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 2770 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 211 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 720

CPU
16%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
87%
GPU
94%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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