Apple A18 vs Samsung Exynos 990

VS

Apple A18

Samsung Exynos 990

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . 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 1.126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2730MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 +117%

1539646

Samsung Exynos 990

707030

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 +58%

1789

Samsung Exynos 990

1126

Apple A18

VS

Samsung Exynos 990

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

4040 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP11

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

5

Execution units

11

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.126 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 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

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

S5E9830

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 990

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