Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Beats A17 Pro In New Antutu Benchmark Result, But Company Issues Statement On Why Such Differences Exist

The latest AnTuTu results comparing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and A17 Pro scores have been spotted online, and just like on previous occasions, Qualcomm’s current flagship SoC gets the better of Apple’s A-series champion. Likely noticing that these differences have existed for a while now, AnTuTu has pushed out a statement explaining why Snapdragon and other chipsets tailor-made for Android smartphones and tablets always seem to have an edge against Apple’s custom silicon family.

AnTuTu explains that comparing iOS and Android results is unfair and claims the test methods for the two platforms are entirely different, hence the disparity between the two chipsets

Before we come around to the statement, Abhishek Yadav posted the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and A17 Pro scores after the flagships were benchmarked on AnTuTu. On the Android side, we have the OnePlus Ace 2 Pro, while the iOS camp had the iPhone 15 Pro Max tested. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 achieved a score of 1,733,703 (1.7+ million), while the A17 Pro was marginally slower, obtaining 1,641,883 (1.6+ million). These results vastly differ from what Apple’s 3nm chipset got in Geekbench 6.

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To remind you, the A17 Pro did not achieve a high single-core and multi-core score compared to the A16 Bionic, but it is still faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in both categories, irrespective of how many times the benchmark is being run. As for AnTuTu’s statement, the company believes that comparing both platforms is unfair, and the testing methods vary significantly between each version.

AnTuTu also states that both the iOS and Android versions of the benchmark use different APIs when running the GPU test. For Android smartphones, the app utilizes the OpenGL ES and Vulkan API, while iOS utilizes Apple’s Metal API. The scenes in the benchmark are identical, but the way they are rendered are completely different. These differences are why the two versions are not ‘directly comparable,’ but it does make for an interesting comparison between the two.

Written by Omar Sohail