Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Apple A17 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 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 625 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

Apple A17 Pro +892%

1549189

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

189

Apple A17 Pro +1462%

2953

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

862

Apple A17 Pro +763%

7441

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

Apple A17 Pro +1631%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

16 MB

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

19

5 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

6

96

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

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+

X9

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Sep 2023

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953

Model number

APL1V02

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Official page

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