Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 vs Apple A17 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 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 865 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 1.2021 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2840MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

738889

Apple A17 Pro +109%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

1202

Apple A17 Pro +78%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

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Apple A17 Pro

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2840 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

10.3

Transistor count

19

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

587 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

6

512

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

1.2021 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 698

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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+

X55

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 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

Dec 2019

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AB

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

Official page

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