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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 vs Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 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

Apple A18 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.72 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2840MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
1.72 TFLOPS
Apple A18 +4%
1.789 TFLOPS

AnTuTu 9

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz – 4x 2 GHz –
2840 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
1 MB
L2 cache
-
0
L3 cache
-
5 nm
Process
3 nm
-
-
-
10 W
TDP
-
-
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 660
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
840 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
2
Execution units
5
512
Shading units
128
24
Max size
8
1.72 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12
DirectX version
-

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s

AI

-
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 780
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
-
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
-
8K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, 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+
X60
Modem
Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Up to 2500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 316 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.2
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2020
Announced
Sep 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8350
Model number
-
Official page
-

Image compression

Face detection

Speech recognition

Machine learning

Camera shooting

HTML 5

SQLite

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