Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 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 900 24
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 125384 475293
GPU 125188 719585
Memory 83836 259838
UX 133752 385136
Total score 468160 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 65.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 900 (1490 vs 900 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 900 (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 900 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 293.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 900 (1,840 K vs 468 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 900.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 226.09% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 900 (60 vs 18.4 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

59%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • 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 3200 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 18.4 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, 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. 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 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 900

CPU
24%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
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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