78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 820

78

Points
Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Dimensity 820 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 820 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 820 27
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 820 20
A17 Pro 97
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 820 75
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 820 41
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 820 A17 Pro
CPU 125662 399992
GPU 125708 620081
Memory 77949 265579
UX 106547 346005
Total score 435866 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 45.38% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (3780 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 55.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (1398 vs 900 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 274.35% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (1,632 K vs 436 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
  • A17 Pro Support 199.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (51.2 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 646
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 820 2599
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Dimensity 820 142.3
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Dimensity 820 22.4
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 820 41.2
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Dimensity 820 31.3
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 820 21.3
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Dimensity 820 2.94
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Dimensity 820 759
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @ 120Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC5 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 80 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 1x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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. 18 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
97%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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