Samsung Exynos 990 vs Apple A18 Pro

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Samsung Exynos 990 Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 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 1.126 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2730MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 990

707030

Apple A18 Pro +174%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 990

1126

Apple A18 Pro +97%

2227

Samsung Exynos 990

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2730 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

9 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP11

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

800 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

11

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

128

16

Max size

8

1.126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

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

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

-

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS

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+

Exynos 5123

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7350 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9830

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 990

Official page

-

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