Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 vs Apple A18

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3, vs Apple A18. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 and Apple A18
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 3
1411268
Apple A18
1605038
CPU368941431354
GPU485676598981
Memory314911208837
UX241740365876
NanoReview Score14112681605038
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
10829
Apple A18
n/a
Graphics Test64 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1913
Apple A18
3466
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
5098
Apple A18
8592
File Compression212.4 MB/s286.8 MB/s
HTML5 Browser154 pages/s184.2 pages/s
PDF Rendering181.3 MP/sec201.2 MP/sec
Background Blur16.7 frames/s36.2 frames/s
Photo Processing45.7 frames/s90 frames/s
Image Detection117.4 frames/s297.2 frames/s
HDR156.1 MP/sec279.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.53 MP/sec8.68 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520
- 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2800 4050
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache n/a 8 MB
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Power (TDP) 5.5 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 732 Apple A18 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 950 MHz 1490 MHz
Execution Units 3 5
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 768 640
FLOPS 1459.2 GFLOPS 1907 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 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 LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4200 MHz 3750 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 67.2 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 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 X63 5G Snapdragon X75
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 5000 MB/s Up to 10000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced March, 2024 yr September, 2024 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename SM7675-AB APL1V08

Results

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

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