Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs Apple A18 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

153310

Apple A18 Pro +1164%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

Apple A18 Pro +1836%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

1800 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

-

3 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

1

Execution units

6

96

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5T

933 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

-

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

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 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jun 2017

Announced

Sep 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

SDM450

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

Official page

-

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