Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 . 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Advantages

Lower TDP (4W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +4893%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

43

Apple A17 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3780 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

3 nm

Process

28 nm

19

Transistor count

1

8 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 505

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

48

8

Max size

4

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 536

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1V02

Model number

MSM8940

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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