Apple A18 Pro vs Apple M1 iPad

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Apple A18 Pro

Apple M1 iPad

We compared the phone version of 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. the tablet version 8 cores 3200MHz Apple M1 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (10W vs 14W)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Apple M1 iPad Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.617 TFLOPS vs 2.2272 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (68.25GB/s vs 60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +1%

1733863

Apple M1 iPad

1709057

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 Pro +44%

3337

Apple M1 iPad

2304

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 Pro

8218

Apple M1 iPad +2%

8422

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro

2227

Apple M1 iPad +17%

2617

Apple A18 Pro

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Apple M1 iPad

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm

4040 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

4 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

16

10 W

TDP

14 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Apple M1 GPU

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

6

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

16

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.617 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

68.25 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

11 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

-

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

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

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1102

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