Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 vs Apple A18 Pro

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 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

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Score

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

3200 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

16 MB

4 nm

Process

3 nm

-

TDP

10 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 730

GPU name

Apple A18 Pro GPU

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

128

24

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

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

是

5G support

Yes

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 316 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

May 2022

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Official page

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