Apple A17 Pro vs MediaTek Dimensity 8400

VS

Apple A17 Pro

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 3250MHz MediaTek Dimensity 8400 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3250MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (136GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Apple A17 Pro

VS

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A725
3x 3.0 GHz – Cortex-A725
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725

3780 MHz

Frequency

3250 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

16 MB

L2 cache

3.5 MB

-

L3 cache

6 MB

3 nm

Process

4 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G720 MC7

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1400 MHz

6

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

8533 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

136 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

MediaTek NPU 880

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

-

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7900 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 4200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

-

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 8400

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