Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A18
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A18 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3230MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
Apple A18
+19%
1539646
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
1.712 TFLOPS
Apple A18
+4%
1.789 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
3230 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
12 MB
L2 cache
-
-
-
-
5 nm
Process
3 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
5
Execution units
5
128
Shading units
128
6
Max size
8
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s
AI
-
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
-
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
-
Modem
Snapdragon X75
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Sep 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
-
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