Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

Compared 2 processors: Apple A18 Pro, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A18 Pro and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
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 8s Gen 4
2082208
CPU465726475806
GPU721738881311
Memory250875390065
UX375110335026
NanoReview Score18134492082208
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
3582
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2154
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
9089
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
6880
File Compression300.1 MB/s293.2 MB/s
HTML5 Browser193.3 pages/s196.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering215.2 MP/sec221.6 MP/sec
Background Blur39.2 frames/s24.1 frames/s
Photo Processing90.3 frames/s63.9 frames/s
Image Detection322.7 frames/s154.6 frames/s
HDR294.3 MP/sec217.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing9.08 MP/sec8.01 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
- 1x 3.21 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 4050 3210
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 16 MB 6 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 4 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 Adreno 825
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 800
GPU Frequency 1490 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution Units 6 2
Shader Units 128 512
Total shader 768 1024
FLOPS 2289 GFLOPS 2355.2 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.3
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12

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 4800 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
Max RAM 8 GB 24 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 4.0
Max. resolution n/a 3840x2160 pixels
Camera 1x48 pixels 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- 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 n/a
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s Up to 4200 MB/s
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 April, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1V07 SM8735

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