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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
A17 Pro 97
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 A17 Pro
CPU 110385 399992
GPU 76645 620081
Memory 63724 265579
UX 94636 346005
Total score 345390 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 89% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (3780 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (3 vs 8 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 372.41% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (1,632 K vs 345 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
  • A17 Pro Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (51.2 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    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 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 128 128
  • 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 14.9 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 692 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 -
  • 5G support Yes 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 690

CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A17 Pro

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