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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 778g Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 778g 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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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 778g 32
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 778g 25
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 778g 79
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 778g 45
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 778g A17 Pro
CPU 161744 399992
GPU 156423 620081
Memory 90737 265579
UX 131554 346005
Total score 540458 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 778g (3780 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 185.31% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778g (1398 vs 490 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778g (3 vs 6 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 201.90% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778g (1,632 K vs 540 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778g.
  • A17 Pro Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 778g (51.2 vs 25.6 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778g 792
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778g 2850
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Snapdragon 778g 175.3
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 778g 25
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 778g 41
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 778g 36.7
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 778g 34.6
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 778g 3.03
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 778g 988.8
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 14 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Up to FHD @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • 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

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache 2 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 490 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops 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) Hexagon 770 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 36MP
  • 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 X53 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 778G

CPU
32%
GPU
25%
Memory
38%
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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