Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . 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 0.024 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +1169%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

136588

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +9179%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

4

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

10 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 308

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

24

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8917

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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