Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 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 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 2.1472 TFLOPS )

Lower TDP (5.3W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

1118907

Apple A17 Pro +38%

1544984

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +17%

2512

Apple A17 Pro

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

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

3000 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

3 nm

-

Transistor count

19

5.3 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 730

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

818 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

6

768

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

2.5128 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X65

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2021

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8450

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Official page

-

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