Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A18

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, vs Apple A18. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s 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 8s Gen 3
1481667
Apple A18
1605038
CPU381423431354
GPU509135598981
Memory338352208837
UX252757365876
NanoReview Score14816671605038
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
11205
Apple A18
n/a
Graphics Test67 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
2019
Apple A18
3466
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
5570
Apple A18
8592
File Compression228.2 MB/s286.8 MB/s
HTML5 Browser163 pages/s184.2 pages/s
PDF Rendering195.5 MP/sec201.2 MP/sec
Background Blur18 frames/s36.2 frames/s
Photo Processing52.1 frames/s90 frames/s
Image Detection125.2 frames/s297.2 frames/s
HDR176.4 MP/sec279.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.98 MP/sec8.68 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
- 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
- 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 3000 4050
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 Cache 8 MB n/a
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Power (TDP) 7.5 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 735 Apple A18 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 1100 MHz 1490 MHz
Execution Units 3 5
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 768 640
FLOPS 1689.6 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 Hexagon 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 3.1
- UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels n/a
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- 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 X70 5G Snapdragon X75
4G Support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 6500 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 Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8635 APL1V08

Results

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

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