Overview - Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 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 7 Gen 1 34
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 26
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 86
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 49
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 A17 Pro
CPU 177123 399992
GPU 162367 620081
Memory 101455 265579
UX 120496 346005
Total score 561441 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 7 Gen 1 (3780 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 133.00% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (1398 vs 600 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 190.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (1,632 K vs 561 K ).
  • A17 Pro Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (51.2 vs 25.6 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 812
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 3081
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 17 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3360 x 1600 -
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
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 1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A710
    3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache 3 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 662 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 600 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - 6
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X62 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 7 Gen 1

CPU
34%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A17 Pro

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