Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

VS

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 . 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 0.4813 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +170%

1539646

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

570038

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 +226%

3336

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

1021

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 +174%

7988

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

2914

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +271%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

481

Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

4040 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 nm

Process

4 nm

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 710

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

940 MHz

5

Execution units

-

128

Shading units

-

8

Max size

12

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4813 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

-

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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, 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 X62

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2900 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM6475-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

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