Overview - Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus 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 8 Plus Gen 1 49
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 51
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 62
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 A17 Pro
CPU 243697 399992
GPU 478120 620081
Memory 191931 265579
UX 184166 346005
Total score 1097914 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 18.13% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (3780 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 55.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1398 vs 900 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 48.61% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1,632 K vs 1,098 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117
A17 Pro 7779

3DMark

Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2021 -
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-X2
    3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 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 - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 6 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - 6
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 Snapdragon X65 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8 Plus Gen 1

CPU
49%
GPU
51%
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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