Snapdragon 678 Vs 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| 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
Multi-Core Score
| 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 67877%
A17 ProScore: 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 ProDisplay
| 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 678100%
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)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| 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
29.25
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A17 Pro
70
Review By TenzysTech
