Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

VS

Apple A17 Pro Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 ProAdvantages

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro

1578785

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +20%

1895624

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A17 Pro +35%

2977

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

2192

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A17 Pro +5%

7476

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

7085

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz –
4x 2.11 GHz –

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A520

3780 MHz

Frequency

3300 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

4 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 750

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

770 MHz

6

Execution units

-

8

Max size

24

128

Shading units

-

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Video codecs

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

-

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

SM8650-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Related SoC Comparison

1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A17 Pro

2

Apple A17 Pro vs Apple A16 Bionic

3

Apple A17 Pro vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

4

Apple A17 Pro vs Apple A12X Bionic

5

Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A17 Pro

6

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 vs Apple A17 Pro

7

Mediatek Dimensity 9300 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

8

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

9

Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

10

Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 678