Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 0.5675 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2450MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +356%

1549189

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

339384

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +278%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

567

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

3780 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

3 nm

Process

10 nm

19

Transistor count

3

8 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 540

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

384

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 682

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

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, 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

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Nov 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

MSM8998

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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