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Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 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 888 43
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
A17 Pro 97
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 A17 Pro
CPU 211734 399992
GPU 306250 620081
Memory 133870 265579
UX 156641 346005
Total score 808495 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 33.1% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3780 vs 2840 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 66.43% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (1398 vs 840 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 40% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (3 vs 5 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 101.81% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (1,632 K vs 808 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1720 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 51.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K 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 X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 -
  • 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 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
97%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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