Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 vs Apple A18
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 60GB/s)
Apple A18 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.4592 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)
Released 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1407086
Apple A18
+9%
1539646
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1913
Apple A18
+74%
3336
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
5098
Apple A18
+56%
7988
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1459
Apple A18
+22%
1789
CPU
1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
2800 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
6 MB
L2 cache
-
12 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
3 nm
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 732
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
950 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
2
Execution units
5
384
Shading units
128
24
Max size
8
1.4592 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
4200 MHz
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
64 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s
AI
Yes
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
-
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Snapdragon X63
Modem
Snapdragon X75
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
7
5.4
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Mar 2024
Announced
Sep 2024
Mid range
Class
Flagship
SM7675
Model number
-
