A14 Bionic Vs A17 Pro
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs A17 Pro SoCs by Apple. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A17 Pro
- A17 Pro has 21.94% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3780 vs 3100 MHz).
- A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
- A17 Pro has 40% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (3 vs 5 nm).
- A17 Pro has 117.28% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,632 K vs 751 K ).
- A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
- A17 Pro Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 203493 | 399992 |
| GPU | 284242 | 620081 |
| Memory | 131989 | 265579 |
| UX | 131211 | 346005 |
| Total score | 750935 | 1631657 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 171.5 Mpixels/s | - |
| Face detection | 33.6 images/s | - |
| Speech recognition | 94.8 words/s | - |
| Machine learning | 93.1 images/s | - |
| Camera shooting | 38.7 images/s | - |
| HTML 5 | 4.5 Mnodes/s | - |
| SQLite | 1060 Mnodes/s | - |
3DMark
65%
A14 Bionic Chip77%
A17 ProScore: 10002
| Stability | 77% | 79% |
| Graphics test | 50 FPS | 60 FPS |
| Score | 8375 | 10002 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A14 Bionic and Apple A17 ProDisplay
| Max On-Device Display | Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz | - |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2732 x 2048 | - |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | - | - |
| Color Depth | - | - |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
82%
A14 Bionic Chip100%
A17 Pro
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
2x 3.78 GHz 4x 2.02 GHz |
| Cores | 6 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 2020 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3100 MHz | 3780 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv9-A |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor count | 11.8 Billion | 19 Billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A14 GPU | Apple A17 GPU |
| Architecture | - | Apple GPU |
| GPU frequency | - | 1398 MHz |
| Execution units | 4 | 6 |
| Shading units | - | 128 |
| FLOPS | 998 Gigaflops | 2147.2 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | - |
| OpenCL version | - | - |
| DirectX version | - | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | |
| Max camera resolution | ||
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 2500 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
| Announced Date | September 2020 | September 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W01 | APL1V02 |
| Official page | A14 Bionic official site | A17 Pro official site |
Apple A14 Bionic
51.25
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A17 Pro
70
Review By TenzysTech
