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Apple A18 Pro

vs

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple A18 Pro and MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Apple A18 Pro

Higher Frequency: 3890 MHz (3890 MHz vs 4.55 GHz)

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro

Higher Technology: 2 nm (3 nm vs 2 nm)
Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2024 vs September 2026)

Basic

Apple

Label Name

MediaTek

September 2024

Launch Date

September 2026

SmartPhone Flagship

Platform

SmartPhone Flagship

System Level Cache (SLC)

10 MB

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

A18 Pro

Model Name

MT6995

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

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

Cores

3 nm

Technology

2 nm

3890 MHz

Frequency

4.55 GHz

GPU Specifications

GPU name

Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX

Max display resolution

WQHD+

Connectivity

Cellular specific functions

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 technologies

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

Downlink functions

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

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

>7.4 Gbps

Modem power saving technologies

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 2.0, Release 17 Power Saving Enhancement

Uplink functions

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

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

Yes

5G support

Yes, 5G-Advanced

5.4

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 6.2, dual Bluetooth engine, up to 12 Mbps

Wi-Fi

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

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR6 / LPDDR5X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

10667 MT/s

4x 16 Bit

Memory Bus

Miscellaneous

L2 Cache

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

L3 cache

16 MB

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

200 MP

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 5.0

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

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

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

Video codecs

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

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60 FPS, 10-bit

Display refresh rate

180 Hz

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

Armv9.3-A

AI features

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

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek NPU 1090 + Super Efficient NPU 2.0