Dimensity 9200 vs A17 Pro
We compared the 8-core MediaTek Dimensity 9200 (Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11) with the newer 6-core Apple A17 Pro (Apple A17 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9200
- Performs 67% better in floating-point computations
- Has 2 more cores
- Supports 33% higher memory bandwidth (68.3 against 51.2 GB/s)
Pros of Apple A17 Pro
- Higher GPU frequency (~64%)
- Has a smaller size transistor (3 versus 4 nm)
- Shows better (up to 30%) AnTuTu 10 score – 1579K vs 1214K
- 24% higher CPU clock speed (3780 vs 3050 MHz)
- Announced 10-months later
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 10
| CPU | 387238 | 373446 |
| GPU | 265247 | 579682 |
| Memory | 288889 | 283791 |
| UX | 269512 | 341416 |
| Total score | 1214632 | 1579294 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 204.3 MB/sec | 260.8 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 147 pages/sec | 169.6 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 170.8 Mpixels/sec | 178.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 127.6 images/sec | 173.5 images/sec |
| HDR | 153.7 Mpixels/sec | 232.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 16.9 images/sec | 27.9 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 44.2 images/sec | 79.1 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 5.32 Mpixels/sec | 7.58 Mpixels/sec |
Compute Score (GPU)
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3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 94% | - |
| Graphics test | 74 FPS | - |
| Score | 12397 | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Dimensity 9200 and A17 ProCPU
| Architecture | 1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X3 3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A715 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510 |
2x 3.78 GHz – 4x 2.02 GHz – |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 3050 MHz | 3780 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv9-A |
| L1 cache | - | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 16 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 3 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 17 billion | 19 billion |
| TDP | - | 8 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G715 Immortalis MP11 | Apple A17 GPU |
| Architecture | Valhall 4th gen | Apple GPU |
| GPU frequency | 850 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Execution units | 11 | 6 |
| Shading units | 192 | 128 |
| Total shaders | 2112 | 768 |
| FLOPS | 3590.4 Gigaflops | 2147.2 Gigaflops |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 68.3 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | MediaTek APU 690 | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2960 x 1440 | - |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 320MP | - |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 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 | - |
Connectivity
| Modem | MediaTek T800 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 7900 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 4200 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 7 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | November 2022 | September 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | MT6985 | APL1V02 |
| Official page | MediaTek Dimensity 9200 official site | - |
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