Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A17 Pro

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3230MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

Apple A17 Pro +19%

1544984

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Apple A17 Pro +25%

2147

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

3230 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

12 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

5 nm

Process

3 nm

15

Transistor count

19

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

5

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

8

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

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

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

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

APL1V02

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