Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . 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 0.148 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +1120%

1539646

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +1108%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

4040 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

6

Cores

4

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

3 nm

Process

28 nm

-

Transistor count

1

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 330

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR3

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 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)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

-

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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