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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 678 vs A17 Pro – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 678 Vs A17 Pro

Snapdragon 678
VS
A17 Pro
Snapdragon 678
A17 Pro
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 vs A17 Pro SoCs by Qualcomm and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 678
19
A17 Pro
94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678
12
A17 Pro
97
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678
61
A17 Pro
89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678
31
A17 Pro
93

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro
  • A17 Pro has 71.82% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3780 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 65.44% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1398 vs 845 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 72.73% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (3 vs 11 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 475.65% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (1,632 K vs 283 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • A17 Pro Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (51.2 vs 14.9 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 678
vs
A17 Pro

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678
283444
A17 Pro +492%
1631657
CPU 101216 399992
GPU 51346 620081
Memory 48181 265579
UX 82701 346005
Total score 283444 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 678
529
A17 Pro +467%
2999
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 678
1536
A17 Pro +406%
7779
Image compression 102.2 Mpixels/s -
Face detection 14.5 images/s -
Speech recognition 27.8 words/s -
Machine learning 23.7 images/s -
Camera shooting 13.7 images/s -
HTML 5 2.05 Mnodes/s -
SQLite 527.2 Mnodes/s -

3DMark

4%
SD 678
77%
A17 Pro
Score: 10002

Stability 99% 79%
Graphics test 2 FPS 60 FPS
Score 482 10002

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 and Apple A17 Pro

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz -
Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR10 -
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

58%
SD 678
100%
A17 Pro
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
2x 3.78 GHz
4x 2.02 GHz
Cores 8 6
Base Frequency 1700 MHz 2020 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2200 MHz 3780 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
L1 cache 16 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 0.256 MB 16 MB
L3 cache - -
Process 11 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 12 Billion 19 Billion
TDP 6 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 612 Apple A17 GPU
Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
GPU frequency 845 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution units 2 6
Shading units 96 128
FLOPS 354 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -
DirectX version 12 -

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Neural Engine
Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
600
A17 Pro
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
N/A
A17 Pro
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
150
A17 Pro
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
N/A
A17 Pro
3500
Modem X12 -
4G support LTE Cat. 12 -
5G support No Yes
Peak Download speed - Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed - Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced Date December 2020 September 2023
Class Mid-range Flagship
Model number SM6150-AC APL1V02
Official page Snapdragon 678 official site A17 Pro official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

29.25


Review By TenzysTech
Apple A17 Pro
Apple A17 Pro
CPU
94%
GPU
97%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%

70


Review By TenzysTech

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