Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 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 0.727 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

448489

Apple A18 +243%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

727

Apple A18 +146%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

VS

Apple A18

CPU

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2800 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

256 KB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

3 nm

3

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 630

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

710 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

256

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.727 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

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 685

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

1x 192MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, 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+

X20

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2017

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SDM845

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Official page

-

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