Overview - A17 Pro Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A17 Pro vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 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 8 Gen 3 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A17 Pro 95
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A17 Pro 89
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A17 Pro 93
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A17 Pro Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU 399992 495720
GPU 620081 914123
Memory 265579 361002
UX 346005 338475
Total score 1631657 2109320
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 14.55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (3780 vs 3300 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 81.56% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (1398 vs 770 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (3 vs 4 nm).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 50.00% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4800 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 29.27% better AnTuTu 9 score than A17 Pro (2,109 K vs 1,632 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 50.39% higher memory bandwidth than A17 Pro (77 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A17 Pro 2999
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329

Multi-Core Score

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A17 Pro 7779
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR - HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

87%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

103%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
    1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 12 MB
  • Process 3 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 19 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A17 GPU Adreno 750
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 770 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 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 77 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support - LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.4
  • 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
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU
91%
GPU
96%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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