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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 55
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 55
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip A17 Pro
CPU 209204 399992
GPU 351594 620081
Memory 118044 265579
UX 130276 346005
Total score 809118 1631657
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 17.03% higher CPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (3780 vs 3230 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 16.50% higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (1398 vs 1200 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 40% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (3 vs 5 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 101.66% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,632 K vs 809 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • A17 Pro Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
A17 Pro

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
A17 Pro

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 19 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture - Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 640 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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, VP8, VP9, 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+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
55%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A17 Pro

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