Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

VS

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . 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 1.72 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2840MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +4%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

1720

Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

4040 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

5 nm

-

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 660

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

512

8

Max size

24

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

Yes

5G support

是

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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