Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A18 Pro 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)
Released 10 years and 7 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 's Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A18 Pro
+1274%
1733863
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
126118
FP32 (float)
Apple A18 Pro
+1404%
2.227 TFLOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
0.148 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
4040 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
4 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
16 MB
L3 cache
-
3 nm
Process
28 nm
-
Transistor count
1
10 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A18 Pro GPU
GPU name
Adreno 330
1450 MHz
GPU frequency
578 MHz
6
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
128
8
Max size
4
2.2272 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.148 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR3
7500 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
60 GB/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
35 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.0
-
Max display resolution
2560 x 2048
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
-
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 5
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
4.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2024
Announced
Feb 2014
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
MSM8974 v3
