Overview - A17 Pro Vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A17 Pro vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 SoCs by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-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
A17 Pro 94
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A17 Pro 97
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 30
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A17 Pro 89
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A17 Pro 93
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A17 Pro Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
CPU 399992 149371
GPU 620081 232144
Memory 265579 105312
UX 346005 114446
Total score 1631657 601273
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 57.50% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (3780 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 48.72% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (1398 vs 940 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 171.37% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (1,632 K vs 601 K).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2.
  • A17 Pro Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (51.2 vs 25.6 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A17 Pro 2999
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 1001

Multi-Core Score

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A17 Pro 7779
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 2913

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 18 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

89%
Base Frequency

1950 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 3 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 19 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A17 GPU Adreno 710
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 940 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 128 -
  • FLOPS 2147.2 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X62
  • 4G support - LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
97%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

CPU
34%
GPU
30%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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