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78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Snapdragon 870

78

Points
Apple A17 Pro

A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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.

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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 870 39
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 A17 Pro
CPU 179347 399992
GPU 270188 620081
Memory 98761 265579
UX 95818 346005
Total score 644114 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 18.13% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (3780 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 116.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1398 vs 645 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 16.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3200 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 153.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (1,632 K vs 644 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
  • A17 Pro Support 16.36% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 (51.2 vs 44 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
A17 Pro

3DMark

22%
Snapdragon 870
Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
51%
A17 Pro
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
     2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K 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 X55 -
  • 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 870

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A17 Pro

Apple A17 Pro
CPU
94%
GPU
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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