Apple A17 Pro vs MediaTek Dimensity 820

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Apple A17 Pro

MediaTek Dimensity 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.416 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +215%

1544984

MediaTek Dimensity 820

489218

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +416%

2147

MediaTek Dimensity 820

416

Apple A17 Pro

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 820

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

3780 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

16 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP5

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.416 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 80MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

May 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1V02

Model number

MT6875

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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