Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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Apple A17 Pro Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 . 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 3300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 2.1472 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro

1549189

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +34%

2079542

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +120%

4730

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

3780 MHz

Frequency

3300 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

4 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 750

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

903 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

1536

8

Max size

24

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

4.7308 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

77 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Video codecs

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

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

SM8650-AB

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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