Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A18
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s 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 8s Gen 3 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 60GB/s)
Apple A18 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.6896 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3000MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)
Released 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
1490645
Apple A18
+3%
1539646
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
2019
Apple A18
+65%
3336
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
5570
Apple A18
+43%
7988
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
1689
Apple A18
+5%
1789
CPU
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
3000 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
1 MB
L2 cache
-
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
3 nm
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 735
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
1100 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
2
Execution units
5
256
Shading units
128
24
Max size
8
1.6896 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
67.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s
AI
Hexagon
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
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
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- 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 X70 5G
Modem
Snapdragon X75
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 6500 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
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8635
Model number
-
