Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs Apple A18 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

135324

Apple A18 Pro +1332%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

Apple A18 Pro +5079%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

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Apple A18 Pro

CPU

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

1400 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

28 nm

Process

3 nm

1

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 505

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

450 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

1

Execution units

6

48

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5T

800 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 536

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

-

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X6

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 4

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 75 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8937

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

Official page

-

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