Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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Apple A17 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 3100MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus . 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 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +94%

1544984

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

796278

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +56%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

1372

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.1 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3780 MHz

Frequency

3100 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

19

Transistor count

10.3

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 650

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

512

8

Max size

16

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, 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

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

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

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Jul 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

SM8250-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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