Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs Apple A17 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs. 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Apple A17 Pro +1303%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

6

Cores

6

256 KB

L2 cache

16 MB

28 nm

Process

3 nm

1

Transistor count

19

9 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 510

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1536 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon V56

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon V56

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X8

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Feb 2015

Announced

Sep 2023

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8956

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Official page

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