Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 vs Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Advantages

Lower TDP (4W vs 10W)

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

43

Apple A18 Pro +5079%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

1400 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

16 MB

28 nm

Process

3 nm

1

Transistor count

-

4 W

TDP

10 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 505

GPU name

Apple A18 Pro GPU

450 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

1

Execution units

6

48

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 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

6.4 Gbit/s

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, VP8

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+

X9

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 100 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

Feb 2016

Announced

Sep 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8940

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

Official page

-

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