Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.284 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 6nm)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +399%

1549189

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

310059

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +655%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

284

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

3780 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

3 nm

Process

6 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 610

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1110 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.284 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 686

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1V02

Model number

SM6225

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

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