Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . 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 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +1030%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

153310

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +1836%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

10 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

96

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

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, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 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

Jun 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SDM450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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