Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 vs Apple A18 Pro

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2, vs Apple A18 Pro. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 and Apple A18 Pro
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
1124140
Apple A18 Pro
1813449
CPU349844465726
GPU338796721738
Memory195051250875
UX240449375110
NanoReview Score11241401813449
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
7530
Apple A18 Pro
n/a
Stability84 %n/a
Graphics Test45 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
1697
Apple A18 Pro
3582
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
4404
Apple A18 Pro
9089
File Compression176.4 MB/s300.1 MB/s
HTML5 Browser115.8 pages/s193.3 pages/s
PDF Rendering157.2 MP/sec215.2 MP/sec
Background Blur16.2 frames/s39.2 frames/s
Photo Processing41.8 frames/s90.3 frames/s
Image Detection114 frames/s322.7 frames/s
HDR134.1 MP/sec294.3 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.67 MP/sec9.08 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 77 FPS (Ultra) n/a
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 59 FPS (Ultra) n/a
FortniteFortnite 38 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends 81 FPS (Ultra) n/a
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 116 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact 114 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 53 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device Xiaomi Poco F5 (1080x2400) n/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
- 3x 2.49 GHz – Cortex-A710
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2910 4050
Instruction set n/a ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 1024 KB n/a
L2 cache 2 MB 16 MB
L3 Cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 10.2 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 725 Apple A18 Pro GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 580 MHz 1490 MHz
Execution Units 2 6
Shader Units 512 128
Total shader 1024 768
FLOPS 1187.8 GFLOPS 2289 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

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

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 3750 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
Max RAM 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max. resolution 2560x1600 pixels n/a
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X62 Snapdragon X75
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 4400 MB/s Up to 10000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 1600 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced March, 2023 yr September, 2024 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename SM7475-AB APL1V07

Results

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

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