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Apple A17 Pro

vs

MediaTek Dimensity 8550

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple A17 Pro and MediaTek Dimensity 8550 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Apple A17 Pro

Higher Frequency: 3780 MHz (3780 MHz vs Up to 3.4GHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 8550

Newer Launch Date: May 2026 (September 2023 vs May 2026)

Basic

Apple

Label Name

MediaTek

September 2023

Launch Date

May 2026

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

SmartPhone Mid range

System Level Cache (SLC)

5MB

TSMC

Manufacturing

APL1V02

Model Name

MediaTek Dimensity 8550

2x 3.78 GHz
4x 2.11 GHz

Architecture

1x Arm Cortex-A725 @ 3.4GHz + 3x Arm Cortex-A725 @ 3.2GHz + 4x Arm Cortex-A725 @ 2.2GHz

Cores

Octa (8)

3 nm

Technology

3780 MHz

Frequency

Up to 3.4GHz

GPU Specifications

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Arm Mali-G720 MC8

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

Max display resolution

WQHD+

Connectivity

Cellular specific functions

5G/4G Dual SIM Dual Active, SA & NSA modes; SA Option2, NSA Option3 / 3a / 3x, NR FR1 TDD+FDD, DSS, 256QAM VoNR / EPS fallback, Smart Network Suite 3.0, Subway Mode 2.0, DSDA 2.0

Cellular technologies

5G-Adv, 3GPP-R16, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD / TDD, 4G FDD / TDD, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, GSM

Downlink functions

FR1 LB DL 4x4 MIMO, 3CC up to 220MHz

Download speed

Up to 5.17Gbps

Modem power saving technologies

R16 UL Enhancement, MediaTek UltraSave 3.0+

Uplink functions

256QAM FR1 UL 2CC, FDD UL TxD

Wi-Fi antenna

2T2R

4G support

4G FDD / TDD, 4G-CA

5G support

5G-Adv, Sub-6GHz (FR1), SA / NSA, 5G-CA

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 5.4

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 6E (a/b/g/n/ac/ax)

Navigation

GPS L1CA+L5+L1C, BeiDou B1I+B1C+B2a, Glonass L1OF, Galileo E1+E5a, QZSS L1CA+L5, NavIC L5

Memory Specifications

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

9600Mbps

4x 16 Bit

Memory Bus

4ch

Miscellaneous

16 MB

L2 Cache

1MB + 3x 512KB + 4x 256KB

L3 cache

6MB

Max camera resolution

320MP; 3x 32MP @ 30FPS

Storage type

UFS 4 + MCQ

Video capture

4K60 (3840 x 2160)

Video codecs

Encode: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC); Decode: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), VP-9, AV1

Video playback

4K @ 60FPS

Display refresh rate

Up to 144Hz

Dual display support

Dual screen support (dual DSI)

8 W

TDP

AI features

LLM Booster, Google Gemini Nano V3 support, Diffusion Transformer support, NeuroPilot hardware compression, mixed-precision INT4 quantization, speculative decoding support

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 880