Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . 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 0.148 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +1128%

1549189

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +1350%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

3780 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

6

Cores

4

16 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

3 nm

Process

28 nm

19

Transistor count

1

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 330

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

MSM8974 v3

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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