Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (10W vs 11W)

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Score

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

10 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 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

2x 32 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/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

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264

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

Audio codecs

AIFF

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

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

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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