Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs Apple A18
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
0.153 TFLOPS
Apple A18
+1069%
1.789 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
1800 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
256 KB
L2 cache
-
-
-
-
28 nm
Process
3 nm
1
Transistor count
-
9 W
TDP
-
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 510
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
600 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
1
Execution units
5
128
Shading units
128
4
Max size
8
0.1536 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
11
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR5X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s
AI
-
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon V56
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
NVMe
2560 x 1600
Max display resolution
-
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8
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+
X8
Modem
Snapdragon X75
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 100 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
7
4.1
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Feb 2015
Announced
Sep 2024
Mid range
Class
Flagship
MSM8956
Model number
-
