Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Apple A18 +491%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Apple A18 +460%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Apple A18

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2150 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

4

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

624 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

5

256

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

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+

X12

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

-

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