Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Apple A17 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +493%

1544984

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +573%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

3780 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

6

Cores

4

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

3 nm

Process

14 nm

19

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 530

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 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

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 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

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

MSM8996

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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