Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

Based on benchmark performance, Apple A18 achieves a higher total AnTuTu score of 1,764,170 (tested by 91Mobiles), compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus's 614,628 (tested by 91Mobiles), making Apple A18 the more powerful processor.

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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Summary

Release Date

Sep, 2024

Jul, 2020

CPU

Hexa Core

(4.05 GHz, Dual Core + 2.42 GHz, Quad core)

Octa core

(3.1 GHz, Single Core + 2.42 GHz, Tri core + 1.8 GHz, Quad core)

Process Node

3 nm

7 nm

GPU

Apple A18 GPU

Adreno 650

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

AnTuTu Score

1,764,170

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614,628

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Geekbench Score

3,278/7,995

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974/3,301

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Benchmark

AnTuTu (The higher, the better)

AnTuTu measures CPU, GPU, memory and overall performance in different scenarios

Apple A18 1,764,170

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 614,628

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CPU

449,863

185,719

GPU

712,145

236,380

Memory

231,053

97,668

371,109

94,861

Geekbench (The higher, the better)

The Geekbench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance

Geekbench Single Core

Apple A18 3,278

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 974

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Geekbench Multi Core

Apple A18 7,995

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 3,301

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General

SoC Brand

Apple

Qualcomm

Title

Apple A18

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

Model No

APL1V08

SM8250-AB

Manufacturing

TSMC

CPU

Total Cores

Hexa Core

Octa core

CPU

Hexa Core (4.05 GHz, Dual Core, Everest + 2.42 GHz, Quad core, Sawtooth)

Octa core (3.1 GHz, Single Core, Kryo 585 + 2.42 GHz, Tri core, Kryo 585 + 1.8 GHz, Quad core, Kryo 585)

Architecture (The higher, the better)

N/A

64 bit

Process Node

3 nm

7 nm

Instruction Set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.2-A

L1 Cache

N/A

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

1 MB

L3 Cache

N/A

4 MB

GPU

Apple A18 GPU

Adreno 650

GPU Clock speed

1.49 GHz

675 MHz

Pipelines

Shading Units

128

256

Total Shaders

640

768

FLOPS

1907 Gigaflops

1036.8 Gigaflops

Vulkan Version

N/A

1.1

OpenCL Version

N/A

2.0 FP

OpenGL Version

N/A

ES 3.2

DirectX Version

N/A

12.1

AI

NPU

Neural Engine

Hexagon

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Memory Speed

3.75 GHz

2.75 GHz

Bus

4x16 Bit

Memory Max bandwidth

60 Gb/s

44 Gb/s

Memory Max size

8 GB

16 GB

Storage Type

NVMe

UFS 3.1

Camera

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Name

N/A	Spectra 480

ISP Bit Depth

N/A

14-bit

Max Camera Sensor Supported

48 MP

200 MP

Max Video Capture Resolution

UHD @ 120 FPS

8K @ 30 FPS

Slow Motion Video Capture

N/A	HD @ 960 FPS

Video Capture Formats

N/A	Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+

Display

Max On-Device Display Resolution

N/A	UHD @ 144 Hz

Max External Display Resolution

N/A	UHD @ 60 Hz

Max Refresh Rate

N/A

144 Hz

HDR Support

N/A

Yes

Color Depth

N/A

10 bit

Multimedia

Video Playback Resolution

UHD @ 120 FPS

8K @ 30 FPS

Video Codecs

AV1, VP8, VP9

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Audio Codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem Name

Snapdragon X71 5G

X55

5G Support

Yes

Peak Download Speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 7500 Mbps

Peak Upload Speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Wi-Fi Version

Wi-Fi Standard

a, ac, ax, b, be, g, n, n 5GHz

a, ac, ad, ax, ax 6GHz, b, g, n

Bluetooth Version

5.3

5.2

Navigation

BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, GPS, NavIC, QZSS

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