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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 680 16
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 A17 Pro
CPU 81097 399992
GPU 38425 620081
Memory 68438 265579
UX 63600 346005
Total score 251560 1631657
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 57.5% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (3780 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25.49% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (1398 vs 1114 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 548.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (1,632 K vs 252 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • A17 Pro Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 96 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 -
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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