Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

VS

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +4060%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

43

Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 505

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

48

8

Max size

4

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 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

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8940

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

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