Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Apple A18 Pro

Based on benchmark performance, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 achieves a higher total AnTuTu score of 4,033,382 (tested by 91Mobiles), compared to Apple A18 Pro's 1,774,620 (tested by 91Mobiles), making Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 the more powerful processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Apple A18 Pro

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Summary

Release Date

Sep, 2025

Sep, 2024

CPU

Octa core

(4.61 GHz, Dual Core + 3.63 GHz, Hexa Core)

Hexa Core

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

Process Node

3 nm

GPU

Adreno 840

Apple A18 Pro GPU

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

AnTuTu Score

4,033,382

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1,774,620

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Geekbench Score

3,733/11,407

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3,317/8,115

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Phones Powered by These SoCs

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Benchmark

AnTuTu (The higher, the better)

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 4,033,382

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Apple A18 Pro 1,774,620

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CPU

1,135,707

474,300

GPU

1,497,128

646,461

Memory

539,535

292,188

861,012

361,671

Geekbench (The higher, the better)

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

Geekbench Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 3,733

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Apple A18 Pro 3,317

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Geekbench Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 11,407

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Apple A18 Pro 8,115

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General

SoC Brand

Qualcomm

Apple

Title

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Apple A18 Pro

Model No

SM8850-AC

APL1V07

Manufacturing

TSMC

CPU

Total Cores

Octa core

Hexa Core

CPU

Octa core (4.61 GHz, Dual Core, Oryon + 3.63 GHz, Hexa Core, Oryon)

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

Architecture (The higher, the better)

64 bit

Process Node

3 nm

Instruction Set

ARMv9.2-A

L1 Cache

192 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

16 MB

N/A

GPU

Adreno 840

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU Clock speed

1.2 GHz

1.49 GHz

Pipelines

Shading Units

512

128

Total Shaders

1536

768

FLOPS

3686.4 Gigaflops

2289 Gigaflops

Vulkan Version

1.4

N/A

OpenCL Version

3.0 FP

N/A

OpenGL Version

ES 3.2

N/A

DirectX Version

12.1

N/A

AI

NPU

Hexagon

Neural Engine

Image Processing Engine

Qualcomm Spectra

N/A

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Memory Speed

5.3 GHz

3.75 GHz

Bus

4x16 Bit

Memory Max bandwidth

84.8 Gb/s

60 Gb/s

Memory Max size

24 GB

8 GB

Storage Type

UFS 4.1

NVMe

Camera

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Name

Qualcomm Spectra

N/A

ISP Bit Depth

20-bit

N/A

Max Camera Sensor Supported

320 MP

48 MP

Camera Features (HDR, MFNR, ZSL)

Face detection, Auto Focus, Artificial Intelligence

N/A

Max Video Capture Resolution

8K @ 60 FPS

UHD @ 120 FPS

Slow Motion Video Capture

FHD @ 480 FPS

N/A

Video Capture Formats

Dolby Vision, HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG)

N/A

Display

Max On-Device Display Resolution

UHD @ 240 Hz

N/A

Max External Display Resolution

8K @ 30 Hz

N/A

Max Refresh Rate

240 Hz

N/A

HDR Support

Yes

N/A

Color Depth

10 bit

N/A

Multimedia

Video Playback Resolution

8K @ 60 FPS

UHD @ 120 FPS

Video Codecs

H.264 (AVC), H.264, H.265 (HEVC), H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, APV

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Audio Codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem Name

Snapdragon X85

Snapdragon X71 5G

5G Support

Yes

Peak Download Speed

Up to 12500 Mbps

Up to 10000 Mbps

Peak Upload Speed

Up to 3700 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Wi-Fi Version

Wi-Fi Standard

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

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

Bluetooth Version

6.0

5.3

USB Version

3.1

N/A

Navigation

BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, GPS, NavIC, QZSS

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