Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A18 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 2.2272 TFLOPS )

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 64GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

1534534

Apple A18 Pro +26%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +56%

3481

Apple A18 Pro

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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Apple A18 Pro

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

3200 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

3 nm

6.3 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 740

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

680 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

2

Execution units

6

1280

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

3.4816 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2022

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8550-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Official page

-

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