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Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 15 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 617

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 11 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 617

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

301

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

867

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

287

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

1,176

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Adreno 405

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 (4)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Cortex-A53	M1
Technology	28 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Cortex-A53 1.50 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Cortex-A53 1.20 GHz	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 405	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	0.55 - 0.55 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	/ 48	112 / 896
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	0	2
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology	28 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2014	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware	Qualcomm AI engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Hexagon 546	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR3-1866 (7.5 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP		18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2015	Q4/2020
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 is 4.0 stars (3 ratings), while Apple M1 (7-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (73 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★