Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 ProAdvantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Published 9 years later

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +1332%

1938352

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

135324

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +5079%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

Apple A18 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3890 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

8

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 505

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

48

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR3

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 536

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 4

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8937

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

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