Apple A18 Pro vs Samsung Exynos 2500

Compared 2 processors: Apple A18 Pro, vs Samsung Exynos 2500. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A18 Pro and Samsung Exynos 2500
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
Samsung Exynos 2500
2213797
CPU465726500921
GPU721738928912
Memory250875410202
UX375110373762
NanoReview Score18134492213797
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
3582
Samsung Exynos 2500
2648
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A18 Pro
9089
Samsung Exynos 2500
9881
File Compression300.1 MB/s386.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser193.3 pages/s234.1 pages/s
PDF Rendering215.2 MP/sec272.4 MP/sec
Background Blur39.2 frames/s36.6 frames/s
Photo Processing90.3 frames/s86.3 frames/s
Image Detection322.7 frames/s246.4 frames/s
HDR294.3 MP/sec313.6 MP/sec
Ray Tracing9.08 MP/sec13 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
- 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
- 2x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 10
Frequency 4050 3300
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 16 MB n/a
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 Samsung Xclipse 950
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU RDNA 3.5
GPU Frequency 1490 MHz 1300 MHz
Execution Units 6 8
Shader Units 128 n/a
Total shader 768 n/a
FLOPS 2289 GFLOPS n/a
Vulkan n/a 1.4
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Neural Engine Yes
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 77 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
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution n/a 3840x2160 pixels
Camera 1x48 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
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 5.4
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2024 yr August, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1V07 S5E9955

Results

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

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