Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Apple A18 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

1118907

Apple A18 +37%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +40%

2512

Apple A18

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

VS

Apple A18

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

3000 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

3 nm

5.3 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 730

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

818 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

768

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

2.5128 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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 X65

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2021

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8450

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Official page

-

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