Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 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 0.284 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 6nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

310059

Apple A18 +396%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

284

Apple A18 +529%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

VS

Apple A18

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2400 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

6 nm

Process

3 nm

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

1110 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.284 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

-

1x 64MP, 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, VP8, 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+

X11

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2021

Announced

Sep 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Official page

-

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