Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

VS

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +1069%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

153

Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

4040 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

256 KB

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 510

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

-

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 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

X8

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 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MSM8976

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

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