Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

VS

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Advantages

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.9184 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

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

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +12%

1539646

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

1366982

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 +74%

3336

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

1913

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 +56%

7988

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

5098

FP32 (float)

Apple A18

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 +63%

2918

Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520

4040 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

6 MB

-

L3 cache

12 MB

3 nm

Process

4 nm

-

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 732

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

768

8

Max size

24

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.9184 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

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

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 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, 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 X63 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 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

Mid range

-

Model number

SM7675

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

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