Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

VS

Apple A17 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.4224 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +320%

1544984

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

367439

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +408%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

422

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

3780 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 MB

L2 cache

-

3 nm

Process

8 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 619

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

825 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4224 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p 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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1V02

Model number

SM4350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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