Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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Apple A18 Pro Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 3100MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus . 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 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 3100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +143%

1938352

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

796278

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +62%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

1372

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 3.1 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

3890 MHz

Frequency

3100 MHz

6

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

10.3

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 650

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

512

8

Max size

16

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR5

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 698

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Jul 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8250-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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