Apple A18 Pro vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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Apple A18 Pro Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . 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 0.487 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +302%

1938352

Samsung Exynos 1280

481288

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +357%

2227

Samsung Exynos 1280

487

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

3890 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

3 nm

Process

5 nm

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

6

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

48

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

-

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

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, 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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E8825

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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