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78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Snapdragon 685

78

Points
Apple A17 Pro

A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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.

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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 685 17
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
A17 Pro 97
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 A17 Pro
CPU 81894 399992
GPU 39122 620081
Memory 77991 265579
UX 71216 346005
Total score 270223 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 35% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3780 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 503.82% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (1,632 K vs 270 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • A17 Pro Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (51.2 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

0%
Snapdragon 685
Stability %

Graphics test -
51%
A17 Pro
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
     2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-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 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency - 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 UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

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Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A17 Pro

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