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MediaTek MT8176 vs Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 12 %

MediaTek MT8176

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 5 %

MediaTek MT8176

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.00 GHz

338

12C / 12T · 4.06 GHz

3,152

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.00 GHz

782

12C / 12T · 3.80 GHz

15,619

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.00 GHz

314

12C / 12T · 4.06 GHz

2,314

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.00 GHz

861

12C / 12T · 3.80 GHz

15,235

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

PowerVR GX6250

Apple M3 Pro (18 Core)

6,390

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
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Cinebench 2024 (MC)
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Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Family	Mediatek MT-Serie (72)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	MediaTek MT81xx MT86xx A72 / A53 (3)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53	M3
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor		Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
Successor		Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x Cortex-A72 2.00 GHz	6x Lobos P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Cortex-A53 1.60 GHz	6x Lobos E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache		36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
GPU name	PowerVR GX6250	Apple M3 Pro (18 Core)
GPU frequency	0.60 - 0.60 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 32	288 / 2304
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory		36 GB
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q1/2014	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR3-933 (14.9 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (153.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory		36 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
TDP		35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek MT8176	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q1/2016	Q4/2023
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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MediaTek MT8176
6C / 6T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
12C / 12T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★