Apple A17 Pro vs Apple A18 Pro

VS

Apple A17 Pro

Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Lower TDP (8W vs 10W)

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 2.1472 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3780MHz)

Released 1 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro

1544984

Apple A18 Pro +12%

1733863

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A17 Pro

2953

Apple A18 Pro +13%

3337

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A17 Pro

7441

Apple A18 Pro +10%

8218

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro

2147

Apple A18 Pro +3%

2227

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

3780 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

16 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

16 MB

3 nm

Process

3 nm

19

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

Apple A18 Pro GPU

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

6

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

2.1472 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

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

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

-

1x 48MP

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, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

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

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

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 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

-

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