Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Apple A18 Pro Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 3230MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +50%

1938352

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +30%

2227

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

3890 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

6

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

12 MB

3 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

15

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

6

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

-

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, 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 X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W07

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