Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 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 860 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 1.0368 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.13GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2960MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

636716

Apple A17 Pro +142%

1544984

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

1036

Apple A17 Pro +107%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

Architecture

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

2960 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.7

Transistor count

19

6 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 640

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

675 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

6

384

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

1.0368 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.13 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 690

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

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+

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 1240 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Apr 2019

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8150-AC

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Official page

-

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