Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A18 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 8s Gen 3Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 2.2272 TFLOPS )

Apple A18 ProAdvantages

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

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 3000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Published 6 months later

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

1554839

Apple A18 Pro +24%

1938352

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

2019

Apple A18 Pro +72%

3478

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

5570

Apple A18 Pro +60%

8914

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +51%

3379

Apple A18 Pro

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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Apple A18 Pro

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

3000 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

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

1450 MHz

2

Execution units

6

768

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

3.3792 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 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. 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

5.4

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

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Official page

-

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