Samsung Exynos 7870 vs Apple A17 Pro

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Samsung Exynos 7870 Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 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

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

Apple A17 Pro +959%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

Apple A17 Pro +9659%

2147

Samsung Exynos 7870

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1600 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

16 MB

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

19

3 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

700 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Sep 2023

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1V02

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

-

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