Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . 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 0.8985 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.13GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2840MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +161%

1549189

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

592031

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +139%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

898

Apple A17 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

3780 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

19

Transistor count

6.7

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 640

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

384

8

Max size

16

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 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

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 690

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Dec 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

SM8150

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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