Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 vs Apple A17 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

225927

Apple A17 Pro +585%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

217

Apple A17 Pro +889%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

2 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

14 nm

Process

3 nm

1.75

Transistor count

19

5 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 512

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

850 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.2176 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

13.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

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

X12

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

May 2017

Announced

Sep 2023

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6115

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

Official page

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