Samsung Exynos 980 vs Apple A18

VS

Samsung Exynos 980

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 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 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 8nm)

Released 5 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 980

433794

Apple A18 +254%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Apple A18 +582%

1789

Samsung Exynos 980

VS

Apple A18

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

2200 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

8 nm

Process

3 nm

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

728 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

5

Execution units

5

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

-

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

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+

Exynos 5123

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Sep 2024

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

-

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