Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 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 0.4813 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

570038

Apple A18 +170%

1539646

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

1021

Apple A18 +226%

3336

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

2914

Apple A18 +174%

7988

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

481

Apple A18 +271%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

VS

Apple A18

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2400 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 710

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

940 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

-

Execution units

5

-

Shading units

128

12

Max size

8

0.4813 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

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)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

-

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

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 X62

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 1600 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6475-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3

Official page

-

Related SoC Comparison

1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G

2

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000

3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

4

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 800U

5

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

6

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

7

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 700

8

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1100

9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Samsung Exynos 990