Overview - Snapdragon 778G Plus Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 778G Plus 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 778G Plus 33
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 778G Plus A17 Pro
CPU 166382 399992
GPU 177972 620081
Memory 106394 265579
UX 130486 346005
Total score 581234 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 51.2% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3780 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 154.18% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1398 vs 550 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 180.72% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1,632 K vs 581 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778G Plus.
  • A17 Pro Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 778G Plus (51.2 vs 25.6 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778G Plus 816
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache 2 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 550 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 845 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 770 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X53 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A17 Pro

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