Overview - A17 Pro Vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A17 Pro vs Snapdragon 8s 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 8s Gen 3 70
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A17 Pro 95
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A17 Pro 89
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A17 Pro 93
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 73
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A17 Pro Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
CPU 399992 374214
GPU 620081 516258
Memory 265579 344248
UX 346005 259884
Total score 1631657 1494604
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 26.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (3780 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 27.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (1398 vs 1100 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 9.17% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (1,632 K vs 1,495 K).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 31.25% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4200 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than A17 Pro.
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Support 25.00% higher memory bandwidth than A17 Pro (64 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A17 Pro 2999
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999

Multi-Core Score

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A17 Pro 7779
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 3 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 19 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A17 GPU Adreno 735
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 128 768
  • FLOPS 2147.2 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 64 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 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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 X70
  • 4G support - LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 8s Gen 3

CPU
70%
GPU
63%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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