Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus vs Apple A18

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3100MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 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 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

796278

Apple A18 +93%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

1372

Apple A18 +30%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

VS

Apple A18

CPU

1x 3.1 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

3100 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

10.3

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

670 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

512

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

1.3721 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

8K at 30FPS

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+

X55

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.2

Bluetooth

5.3

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jul 2020

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

Official page

-

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