Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +1141%

1938352

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 Pro +1740%

3478

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

189

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 Pro +934%

8914

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

862

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +1695%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

3890 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

6

Cores

8

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR3

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8953

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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