Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

VS

Apple A17 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +889%

1544984

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A17 Pro +1462%

2953

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A17 Pro +763%

7441

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

862

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +1631%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

3780 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 MB

L2 cache

-

3 nm

Process

14 nm

19

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 546

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1V02

Model number

MSM8953

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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