Apple A17 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +1303%

2147

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3780 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

6

16 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

3 nm

Process

28 nm

19

Transistor count

1

8 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 510

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon V56

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

X8

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

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1V02

Model number

MSM8956

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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