Apple A17 Pro vs Apple M2 iPad

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Apple A17 Pro

Apple M2 iPad

We compared the phone version of 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. the tablet version 8 cores 3490MHz Apple M2 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 15W)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Apple M2 iPad Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.918 TFLOPS vs 2.1472 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro

1544984

Apple M2 iPad +41%

2188966

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A17 Pro +12%

2953

Apple M2 iPad

2623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A17 Pro

7441

Apple M2 iPad +31%

9803

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro

2147

Apple M2 iPad +35%

2918

Apple A17 Pro

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Apple M2 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard

3780 MHz

Frequency

3490 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

16 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

3 nm

Process

5 nm

19

Transistor count

20

8 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Apple M2 GPU

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

6

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

24

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.918 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

6400 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

15.8 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

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 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Jun 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

APL1109

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