Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 vs Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 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 690 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.4864 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

365230

Apple A18 Pro +374%

1733863

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

486

Apple A18 Pro +358%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2000 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

16 MB

8 nm

Process

3 nm

6 W

TDP

10 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 619

GPU name

Apple A18 Pro GPU

950 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

2

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.4864 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 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

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 692

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

-

1x 192MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, 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 X51

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 900 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.1

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jun 2020

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6350

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Official page

-

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