Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 . 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 0.284 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 6nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +525%

1938352

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

310059

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +684%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

284

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

3890 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

3 nm

Process

6 nm

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 610

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1110 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.284 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

78.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 686

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 16MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SM6225

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

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