Apple A17 Pro vs Apple M1 iPad

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Apple A17 Pro Apple M1 iPad

We compared the phone version of 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. the tablet version 8 cores 3200MHz Apple M1 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 ProAdvantages

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 14W)

Published 2 years 10 months later

Apple M1 iPadAdvantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.617 TFLOPS vs 2.1472 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (68.25GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A17 Pro +28%

2953

Apple M1 iPad

2304

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A17 Pro

7441

Apple M1 iPad +13%

8422

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro

2147

Apple M1 iPad +21%

2617

Apple A17 Pro

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Apple M1 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm

3780 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

3 nm

Process

5 nm

19

Transistor count

16

8 W

TDP

14 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Apple M1 GPU

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

6

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

16

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.617 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

68.25 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

-

Theoretical Performance

11 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

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

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

APL1102

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