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Apple A18
Overview - Dimensity 8300 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8300 vs Apple A18 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 8300 47
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8300 45
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8300 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8300 59
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8300 Apple A18
CPU 282796 421143
GPU 542690 615010
Memory 328720 178670
UX 249840 345874
Total score 1404046 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 0.14% higher GPU clock speed than Apple A18 (1400 vs 1398 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 13.76% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (4266 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 20.6% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8300 (4040 vs 3350 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8300 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 11.16% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8300 (1,561 K vs 1,404 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8300.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8300 1512
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8300 4886
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

54%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G615 MP6 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 4rd gen Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1400 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 780 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support - LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7900 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 4200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.4 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 8300

CPU
47%
GPU
45%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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