Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus 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 9000 Plus 53
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Plus A17 Pro
CPU 291317 399992
GPU 430867 620081
Memory 218270 265579
UX 206140 346005
Total score 1146594 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 17.19% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (3750 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 18.13% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9000 Plus (3780 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 9000 Plus (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 42.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 9000 Plus (1,632 K vs 1,147 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 -
  • Max External Display 2K @ 144 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MC10 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 10 6
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3750 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

CPU
53%
GPU
50%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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