Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 11 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 2.2272 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +19%

2079542

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +112%

4730

Apple A18 Pro

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

4040 MHz

Frequency

3300 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 MB

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

4 nm

10 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 750

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

903 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

1536

8

Max size

24

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

4.7308 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

77 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8650-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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