Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A17 Pro
In Geekbench, the Apple A17 Pro is 38% faster in single-core and 13% faster in multi-core. Where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 does better: newer Arm instruction set (ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv8.6-A) and 67% more GPU compute power (3584 GFLOPS vs 2147 GFLOPS).
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A17 Pro: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leads
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv8.6-A
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67% more GPU compute power
3584 GFLOPS vs 2147 GFLOPS
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Newer RAM type
LPDDR5X vs LPDDR5
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50% faster RAM
4800 MHz vs 3200 MHz
Where the Apple A17 Pro leads
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11% higher peak CPU clock
3.78 GHz vs 3.4 GHz
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2x larger L3 cache
24 MB vs 12 MB
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Smaller process node
3 nm vs TSMC 4 nm
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13% faster in Geekbench multi-core
7,517 vs 6,626
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38% faster in Geekbench single-core
2,987 vs 2,162
AnTuTu and Geekbench scores
AnTuTu v11 Total
AnTuTu scores from iOS and Android are not directly comparable, so no winner is marked.
Geekbench Single-Core
+38% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+13% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- October 2023
- September 2023
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Flagship
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- Apple
- Model Number
- SM8650-AB, SM8650-AC
- APL1V02
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 6
- Core Configuration
- 1x 3.3 GHz - Cortex X4
3x 3.15 GHz - Cortex A720
2x 2.96 GHz - Cortex A720
2x 2.27 GHz - Cortex A520 - 2x 3.78 GHz - Performance cores
4x 2.11 GHz - Efficiency cores - Max Frequency
- 3400 MHz
- 3780 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9.2-A
- ARMv8.6-A
- Process Node
- TSMC 4 nm
- 3 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 1 MB
- 20 MB
- L3 Cache
- 12 MB
- 24 MB
- TDP
- 8 W
- 8W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 750
- Apple A17 Pro GPU
- GPU Frequency
- 903 MHz - 1000 MHz
- 1398 MHz
- Shading Units
- 1536
- 128
- FLOPS
- 3584 GFLOPS
- 2147 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- Yes
- Yes
- NPU
- Hexagon NPU
- Apple Neural Engine
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
- Metal 3, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5X
- LPDDR5
- RAM Frequency
- 4800 MHz
- 3200 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x16-bit
- 4x 16-bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 76.8 GB/s
- 51.2 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 8 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 4.0
- NVMe
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 200 MP
- 48 MP
- Video Capture
- 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS, 720p at 960FPS
- 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 240FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- 4K
- 2868 x 1320
- Video Playback
- 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K @ 60FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
- H.264, H.265, HEVC, AV1, VP8, VP9, ProRes, Motion JPEG
- Audio Codecs
- AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV, AIFF, CAF
Connectivity
- Modem
- Snapdragon X75 5G
- Snapdragon X70 5G
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 10 Gbps
- 7.5 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- Up to 3.5 Gbps
- 3.5 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6E
- Bluetooth
- 5.4
- 5.3
- Navigation
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NavIC
- GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou, QZSS
Links
Benchmark results
Every AnTuTu and Geekbench result for both chips. Green marks the higher score.
AnTuTu v11
AnTuTu scores from iOS and Android are not directly comparable, so no winner is marked.
- Total
- 23,68,420
- 16,43,269
- CPU
- 6,52,232
- 6,00,198
- GPU
- 8,24,065
- 4,71,123
- Memory
- 3,30,935
- 2,30,169
- UX
- 5,61,188
- 3,41,779
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 2,162
- 2,987
- Multi-Core
- 6,626
- 7,517
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+6 pointsCPU Score
+1 pointGPU Score
+2 pointsMemory Score
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