Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus . 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 0.4864 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +376%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

363972

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +358%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

486

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

4040 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

8 nm

10 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 619

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4864 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

-

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

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

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SM4350-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

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