Samsung Exynos 980 vs Apple A17 Pro

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Samsung Exynos 980 Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 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

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 980

433794

Apple A17 Pro +257%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Apple A17 Pro +719%

2147

Samsung Exynos 980

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Apple A17 Pro

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

16 MB

8 nm

Process

3 nm

-

Transistor count

19

9 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

728 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

5

Execution units

6

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 120FPS

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+

Exynos 5123

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Sep 2023

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

APL1V02

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

-

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