MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro
vs
Apple A20 Pro
vs
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of
MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro
and
Apple A20 Pro
mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Newer Launch Date: September 2026 (September 2026 vs September 2026)
- Higher Frequency: 4.93 GHz (4.55 GHz vs 4.93 GHz)
Basic
MediaTek
Label Name
Apple
September 2026
Launch Date
September 2026
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
10 MB
System Level Cache (SLC)
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
MT6995
Model Name
Apple A20 Pro
2x 4.55 GHz Arm C2-Ultra + 3x 4.35 GHz Arm C2-Pro + 3x 3.10 GHz Arm C2-Pro
Architecture
2x 4.93 GHz + 4x 2.64 GHz
8
Cores
6
2 nm
Technology
2 nm
4.55 GHz
Frequency
4.93 GHz
GPU Specifications
Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX
GPU name
Apple A20 Pro GPU
-
GPU frequency
1620 MHz
-
FLOPS
2903 GFLOPS
-
Shading units
128
-
Execution units
7
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
Bluetooth 6.0
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Triple Band Triple Concurrency, up to 7.3 Gbps
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 7
GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou, NavIC
Memory Specifications
LPDDR6 / LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
10667 MT/s
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
-
Memory Bus
96-bit
Miscellaneous
-
L1 Cache
192 KB
8.5 MB (2x 2 MB + 3x 1 MB + 3x 512 KB)
L2 Cache
16 MB
16 MB
L3 cache
-
-
Audio codecs
AAC, APAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Atmos
200 MP
Max camera resolution
3x 48 MP
UFS 5.0
Storage type
NVMe
8K at 60 FPS; 4K at 120 FPS with EIS; 4K at 240 FPS slow-motion; 4K at 60 FPS HDR
Video capture
4K at 120 FPS
VVC (H.266), HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), VP9, AV1, MV-HEVC
Video codecs
HEVC, H.264, AV1, ProRes
8K at 60 FPS, 10-bit
Video playback
4K
180 Hz
Display refresh rate
-
Armv9.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.4-A
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)
Dual 16-core Apple Neural Engine
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Dimensity 9600 Pro
4346
A20 Pro
4713
+8%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Dimensity 9600 Pro
13052
+4%
A20 Pro
12599
AntuTu 11
Dimensity 9600 Pro
4838033
+41%
A20 Pro
3434654
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