Unisoc SC9863A vs Apple A18

VS

Unisoc SC9863A

Apple A18

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Unisoc SC9863A 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 0.0704 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 28nm)

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Unisoc SC9863A

156960

Apple A18 +880%

1539646

FP32 (float)

Unisoc SC9863A

70

Apple A18 +2455%

1789

Unisoc SC9863A

VS

Apple A18

CPU

4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 1.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –

1600 MHz

Frequency

4040 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

28 nm

Process

3 nm

3 W

TDP

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8322

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

550 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

8

Execution units

5

8

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.0704 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

60 GB/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2160 x 1080

Max display resolution

-

1x 16MP, 2x 5MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

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+

-

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Nov 2018

Announced

Sep 2024

Low end

Class

Flagship

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