Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . 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 0.3667 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

428143

Apple A18 +259%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

366

Apple A18 +388%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

VS

Apple A18

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2200 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

4 nm

Process

3 nm

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 613

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

955 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

96

Shading units

128

-

Max size

8

0.3667 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

-

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Snapdragon X61

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 900 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jun 2023

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM4450

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Official page

-

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