Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +731%

1938352

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +566%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

3890 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

6

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 530

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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