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MediaTek Dimensity 6500

vs

Apple A17 Pro

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of MediaTek Dimensity 6500 and Apple A17 Pro mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

MediaTek Dimensity 6500

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

Apple A17 Pro

Higher Technology: 3 nm (6 nm vs 3 nm)
Higher Frequency: 3780 MHz (Up to 2.6GHz vs 3780 MHz)

Basic

MediaTek

Label Name

Apple

May 2026

Launch Date

September 2023

SmartPhone Mid range

Platform

SmartPhone Flagship

Manufacturing

TSMC

MediaTek Dimensity 6500

Model Name

APL1V02

2x Arm Cortex-A76 @ 2.6GHz + 6x Arm Cortex-A55 @ 2.0GHz

Architecture

2x 3.78 GHz
4x 2.11 GHz

Octa (8)

Cores

6 nm

Technology

3 nm

Up to 2.6GHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

GPU Specifications

Arm Mali-G57 MC2

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

Up to 1.1GHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

Connectivity

SA & NSA modes; SA Option2, NSA Option3 / 3a / 3x, NR TDD Band, NR FDD Band, DSS, NR DL 2CC, 140 MHz bandwidth, 256QAM NR UL 2CC, 256QAM VoNR, Dual VoNR, Dual 5G SIM, EPS fallback

Cellular specific functions

2G / 3G / 4G / 5G Multi-Mode, 4G Carrier Aggregation (CA), 5G Carrier Aggregation (CA), EDGE, 4G FDD / TDD, 5G FDD / TDD, GSM, TD-SCDMA

Cellular technologies

NR DL 2CC, 140 MHz bandwidth, 8-layer DL MIMO

Downlink functions

3.3Gbps

Download speed

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+

Modem power saving technologies

256QAM NR UL 2CC

Uplink functions

1T1R