Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 vs Apple A18 Pro

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 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 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

810488

Apple A18 Pro +139%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1372

Apple A18 Pro +62%

2227

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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Apple A18 Pro

CPU

1x 3.2 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 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

3200 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

10.3

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

670 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

2

Execution units

6

512

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

1.3721 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 698

NPU

Neural Engine

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 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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+

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

5.4

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Official page

-

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