Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 . 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 0.3244 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 11nm)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +409%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

340607

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +587%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

324

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 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

256 KB

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

11 nm

10 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 612

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

845 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3244 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

-

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

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, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM6150-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

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