Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs Apple A18 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs. 6 cores 3890MHz 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

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.8985 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 34.13GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2840MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

592031

Apple A18 Pro +227%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

898

Apple A18 Pro +147%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2840 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.7

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 640

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

585 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

2

Execution units

6

384

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

0.8985 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.13 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 690

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 690

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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+

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 1240 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2018

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8150

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Official page

-

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