Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 9 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

135324

Apple A18 +1037%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

Apple A18 +4060%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

VS

Apple A18

CPU

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

1400 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

28 nm

Process

3 nm

1

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 505

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

450 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

5

48

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5X

800 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

-

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X6

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 4

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 75 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8937

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

Official page

-

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