Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A18

Based on benchmark performance, Apple A18 achieves a higher total AnTuTu score of 1,764,170 (tested by 91Mobiles), compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's 1,611,015 (tested by 91Mobiles), making Apple A18 the more powerful processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Apple A18

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Summary

Release Date

Nov, 2022

Sep, 2024

CPU

Octa core

(3.2 GHz, Single Core + 2.8 GHz, Dual core + 2.8 GHz, Dual core + 2 GHz, Tri core)

Hexa Core

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

Process Node

4 nm

3 nm

GPU

Adreno 740

Apple A18 GPU

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

AnTuTu Score

1,611,015

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1,764,170

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Geekbench Score

2,023/5,564

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3,278/7,995

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Benchmark

AnTuTu (The higher, the better)

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1,611,015

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Apple A18 1,764,170

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CPU

387,339

449,863

GPU

613,431

712,145

Memory

306,362

231,053

303,883

371,109

Geekbench (The higher, the better)

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

Geekbench Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 2,023

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Apple A18 3,278

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Geekbench Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5,564

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Apple A18 7,995

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General

SoC Brand

Qualcomm

Apple

Title

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Apple A18

Model No

SM8550-AB

APL1V08

Manufacturing

TSMC

CPU

Total Cores

Octa core

Hexa Core

CPU

Octa core (3.2 GHz, Single Core, Cortex X3 + 2.8 GHz, Dual core, Cortex A715 + 2.8 GHz, Dual core, Cortex A710 + 2 GHz, Tri core, Cortex A510)

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

Architecture (The higher, the better)

64 bit

N/A

Process Node

4 nm

3 nm

Instruction Set

ARMv9-A

ARMv9.2-A

L2 Cache

1 MB

8 MB

L3 Cache

8 MB

N/A

GPU

Adreno 740

Apple A18 GPU

GPU Clock speed

680 MHz

1.49 GHz

Pipelines

Shading Units

512

128

Total Shaders

1536

640

FLOPS

2089 Gigaflops

1907 Gigaflops

Vulkan Version

1.3

N/A

OpenCL Version

2.0 FP

N/A

OpenGL Version

ES 3.2

N/A

DirectX Version

12.1

N/A

AI

NPU

Hexagon

Neural Engine

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Memory Speed

4.2 GHz

3.75 GHz

Bus

4x16 Bit

Memory Max bandwidth

67.2 Gb/s

60 Gb/s

Memory Max size

24 GB

8 GB

Storage Type

UFS 4.0

NVMe

Camera

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Name

Spectra

N/A

ISP Bit Depth

18-bit

N/A

Max Camera Sensor Supported

200 MP

48 MP

Camera Features (HDR, MFNR, ZSL)

Face detection, High Dynamic Range mode (HDR), Bokeh Effect

N/A

Max Video Capture Resolution

8K @ 30 FPS

UHD @ 120 FPS

Slow Motion Video Capture

HD @ 960 FPS

N/A

Video Capture Formats

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

N/A

Display

Max On-Device Display Resolution

QHD

N/A

Max External Display Resolution

UHD

N/A

Max Refresh Rate

144 Hz

N/A

HDR Support

Yes

N/A

Multimedia

Video Playback Resolution

8K @ 60 FPS

UHD @ 120 FPS

Video Codecs

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

AV1, VP8, VP9

Audio Codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem Name

Snapdragon X70

Snapdragon X71 5G

5G Support

Yes

Peak Download Speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Peak Upload Speed

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

5.3

USB Version

3.1

N/A

Navigation

BeiDou, Galileo, Glonass, GPS, NavIC, QZSS

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