Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . 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 1.0368 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 34.13GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2960MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +204%

1938352

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

636716

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +114%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

1036

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

3890 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

6

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.7

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 640

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

384

8

Max size

16

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 690

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8150-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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