Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 . 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 0.727 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Advantages

Lower TDP (9W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +286%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

448489

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +206%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

727

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

4040 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

16 MB

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

3

10 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 630

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

710 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.727 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 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 685

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

X20

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 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 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SDM845

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Related SoC Comparison

1

Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

2

Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

3

Apple A18 Pro vs Unisoc T606

4

Apple A18 Pro vs MediaTek Helio P70

5

Apple A18 Pro vs MediaTek Dimensity 8300

6

Apple A18 Pro vs MediaTek MT6580

7

Apple A18 Pro vs Samsung Exynos 1480

8

Apple A18 Pro vs Samsung Exynos 9820

9

Apple A18 Pro vs MediaTek Dimensity 8200

10

Apple A18 Pro vs MediaTek Dimensity 7030