Overview - Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 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 Plus Gen 2 54
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 46
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 86
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 62
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 A17 Pro
CPU 246704 399992
GPU 352464 620081
Memory 176323 265579
UX 171430 346005
Total score 946921 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 29.9% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (3780 vs 2910 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 141.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (1398 vs 580 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 72.31% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (1,632 K vs 947 K ).
  • A17 Pro Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (51.2 vs 25.6 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 1656
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 4482
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 85%

Graphics test -
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display QHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3360 x 1600 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2910 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.49 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 - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 725 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 580 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - 6
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.2 -
  • 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 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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 X62 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

CPU
54%
GPU
46%
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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