Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple A18

VS

Apple A11 Bionic

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic 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 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2390MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Released 7 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A11 Bionic

409550

Apple A18 +275%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Apple A11 Bionic

409

Apple A18 +337%

1789

Apple A11 Bionic

VS

Apple A18

CPU

2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2390 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

10 nm

Process

3 nm

4.3

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A11 GPU

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

1066 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

3

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.4093 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.1

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2436 x 1125

Max display resolution

-

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

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, Motion JPEG

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+

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W72

Model number

-

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