Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs Apple A17 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 vs. 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.4224 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

367439

Apple A17 Pro +321%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

422

Apple A17 Pro +408%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

16 MB

8 nm

Process

3 nm

-

Transistor count

19

3 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 619

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

825 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.4224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 686

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X51

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 800 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Sep 2023

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM4350

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

Official page

-

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