Apple A17 Pro vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 specs. As usual, Apple’s latest CPUs are built on its customized take on the Arm architecture. That means CPU cores that you won’t find in the Android space ...

In case you didn’t know, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Apple A16 Bionic are mass-produced under the same process. They both are products of TSMC’s N4 node. Considering that, it would be ...

In fact, Apple’s older chips, the A15 Bionic and the A14 Bionic are also faster than the Snapdragon Gen 2 in single-core performance, which is arguably more important on a phone.

Mac Rumors notes that the benchmark scores of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 falls behind the results of the A16 Bionic. For the single-core test, the A16 Bionic garnered an 1874 score, whereas the new ...

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered reference design device Qualcomm gave us averaged a single-core score of 1,500, ... Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: 412: 42: Apple iPhone 14: A15 Bionic: 457: 46.7: ...

Overall, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 boasts a more efficient GPU than Apple’s A16 Bionic. It can reach a higher FPS by a considerable margin, allowing for a smoother, stutter-free gaming experience.

That's a substantial increase over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 reference hardware, which we tested at 1,486/5,225. The latest iPhones put up numbers around 1,850 for single-core and 5,350 in multi-core.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the best gaming chip available at time of writing, even if the A16 Bionic still holds the lead in Geekbench and 4K-1080p video transcoding.

However, it seems that TSMC’s 3 nm node has been reserved for Apple’s next-gen chipset, the A17 Bionic, giving it a production priority over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300, which ...

But this doesn’t negate the fact that Qualcomm retails the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC to manufacturers $50 more expensive than Apple’s chip. Both chips are the current generations from Qualcomm ...

Qualcomm is reportedly selling its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip to smartphone makers for $160 per unit. This is higher than the price that Apple pays to make its A16 Bionic chip, which is $110 per unit.