Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s 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 3000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 2.2272 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 60GB/s)

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +16%

1733863

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

1489956

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 Pro +65%

3337

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

2019

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 Pro +47%

8218

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

5570

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +51%

3379

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

4040 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

8 MB

3 nm

Process

4 nm

10 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Adreno 735

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

6

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

768

8

Max size

24

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

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

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

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 X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 6500 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

Mar 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8635

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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