Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 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 8 Gen 2 57
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 A17 Pro
CPU 270867 399992
GPU 567801 620081
Memory 239879 265579
UX 198202 346005
Total score 1276749 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 31.25% higher memory frequency than A17 Pro (4200 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 18.13% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (3780 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 42.65% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1398 vs 980 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 27.80% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1,632 K vs 1,277 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 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 1 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - 6
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 Snapdragon X70 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 7 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
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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