Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G . 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 0.384 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +297%

1549189

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

389314

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +459%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

384

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3780 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

8 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 618

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.384 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 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

384 kHz/32 bit

Snapdragon X70

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1V02

Model number

SM7125

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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