Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (10W vs 11W)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +566%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +598%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

4040 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

6

Cores

4

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 530

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

6

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

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

Audio codecs

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

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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