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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G vs A17 Pro SoCs by Qualcomm and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 720G 21
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G A17 Pro
CPU 98820 399992
GPU 71078 620081
Memory 47158 265579
UX 52126 346005
Total score 269182 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 64.35% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (3780 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 86.40% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1398 vs 750 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (3 vs 8 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 506.15% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (1,632 K vs 269 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • A17 Pro Support 268.08% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (51.2 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 128 128
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 -
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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