Overview - Dimensity 8300 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8300 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 8300 47
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8300 45
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8300 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8300 59
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8300 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 282796 475293
GPU 542690 719585
Memory 328720 259838
UX 249840 385136
Total score 1404046 1839852
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 13.76% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 Pro (4266 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 6.43% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8300 (1490 vs 1400 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8300 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 31.04% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8300 (1,840 K vs 1,404 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8300.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8300 1512
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8300 4886
Apple A18 Pro 8147

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

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

54%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G615 MP6 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 4rd gen Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1400 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 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 60 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 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 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. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7900 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 4200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • 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 Pro

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