89

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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Dimensity 8020 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8020 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 8020 33
A17 Pro 89
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8020 30
A17 Pro 88
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8020 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8020 47
A17 Pro 89
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8020 A17 Pro
CPU 169130 399992
GPU 238983 620081
Memory 130727 265579
UX 148460 346005
Total score 687300 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 8020 (3780 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8020 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8020 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 137.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8020 (1,632 K vs 687 K ).
  • A17 Pro Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 8020 (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8020 826
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8020 3315
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 Full HD+ @144 Hz, QHD+ @90 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

64%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

94%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set - ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G77 MC9 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency - 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 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 570 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 4700 Mbps 7500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • 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 8020

CPU
33%
GPU
30%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
89%
GPU
88%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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