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MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

vs

Apple A17 Pro

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro and Apple A17 Pro mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

Higher Technology: 2 nm (2 nm vs 3 nm)
Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2026 vs September 2023)

Apple A17 Pro

Higher Frequency: 3780 MHz (4.55 GHz vs 3780 MHz)

Basic

MediaTek

Label Name

Apple

September 2026

Launch Date

September 2023

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

SmartPhone Flagship

10 MB

System Level Cache (SLC)

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

MT6995

Model Name

APL1V02

2x 4.55 GHz Arm C2-Ultra + 3x 4.35 GHz Arm C2-Pro + 3x 3.10 GHz Arm C2-Pro

Architecture

2x 3.78 GHz
4x 2.11 GHz

Cores

2 nm

Technology

3 nm

4.55 GHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

GPU Specifications

Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

WQHD+

Max display resolution

Connectivity

5G/4G Triple SIM Triple Active, Dual Data, SA and NSA, SA Option 2, NSA Option 3/3a/3x, NR FR1 TDD+FDD, DSS, 256QAM, VoNR, EPS fallback

Cellular specific functions

3GPP Release 17, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD/TDD, 4G FDD/TDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, EDGE, GSM

Cellular technologies

Sub-6 DL 5CC 350 MHz, Release 17 Enhancement, low-band DL 4x4 MIMO

Downlink functions

>7.4 Gbps

Download speed

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 2.0, Release 17 Power Saving Enhancement

Modem power saving technologies

Sub-6 UL 2CC 200 MHz, Release 17 Enhancement, FDD UL 2x2 MIMO, PC2

Uplink functions

Yes

4G support

Yes, 5G-Advanced

5G support

Bluetooth 6.2, dual Bluetooth engine, up to 12 Mbps

Bluetooth

Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Triple Band Triple Concurrency, up to 7.3 Gbps

Wi-Fi

GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Navigation

Memory Specifications

LPDDR6 / LPDDR5X

Memory type

10667 MT/s

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

Memory Bus

4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

8.5 MB (2x 2 MB + 3x 1 MB + 3x 512 KB)

L2 Cache

16 MB

L3 cache

200 MP

Max camera resolution

UFS 5.0

Storage type

8K at 60 FPS; 4K at 120 FPS with EIS; 4K at 240 FPS slow-motion; 4K at 60 FPS HDR

Video capture

VVC (H.266), HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), VP9, AV1, MV-HEVC

Video codecs

8K at 60 FPS, 10-bit

Video playback

180 Hz

Display refresh rate

TDP

8 W

Armv9.3-A

Instruction set

Native AI Architecture, Dimensity Agentic AI Engine, AI Compute Fusion, Neural Graphics Architecture, AI Imaging Fusion Architecture, on-device MoE inference, edge-training LLM, KV-cache compression

AI features

MediaTek NPU 1090 + Super Efficient NPU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)