Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G vs Apple A17 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G 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 720G Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.384 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

389314

Apple A17 Pro +297%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

384

Apple A17 Pro +459%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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Apple A17 Pro

CPU

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2300 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

8 nm

Process

3 nm

-

Transistor count

19

5 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 618

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

750 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.384 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

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

384 kHz/32 bit

Audio codecs

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

X15

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 15

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 800 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2020

Announced

Sep 2023

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM7125

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

Official page

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