Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2

Compared 2 processors: Apple A18 Pro, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A18 Pro and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A18 Pro
1813449
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3115282
CPU465726679852
GPU7217381283493
Memory250875646515
UX375110505422
NanoReview Score18134493115282
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
3582
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3393
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
9089
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
11515
File Compression300.1 MB/s421.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser193.3 pages/s268 pages/s
PDF Rendering215.2 MP/sec300.8 MP/sec
Background Blur39.2 frames/s42.4 frames/s
Photo Processing90.3 frames/s115.6 frames/s
Image Detection322.7 frames/s353.8 frames/s
HDR294.3 MP/sec339.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing9.08 MP/sec14.1 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
- 2x 4.6 GHz -
- 6x 3.63 GHz -
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 4050 4600
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 16 MB n/a
L3 Cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 3 nm
Power (TDP) 10 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A18 Pro GPU n/a
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU n/a
GPU Frequency 1490 MHz n/a
Execution Units 6 n/a
Shader Units 128 n/a
Total shader 768 n/a
FLOPS 2289 GFLOPS 3990 GFLOPS

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Neural Engine Hexagon
GPU Frequency 35 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 3750 MHz n/a
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 60 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 8 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Camera 1x48 pixels 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X75 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.3 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2024 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1V07 SM8850

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A18 Pro the clear winner in this comparison.

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