Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G vs Apple A18 Pro SoCs by Qualcomm and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 720G 17
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 11
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 33
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G Apple A18 Pro
CPU 98820 475293
GPU 71078 719585
Memory 47158 259838
UX 52126 385136
Total score 269182 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 98.67% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1490 vs 750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 100.96% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (3750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 583.50% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (1,840 K vs 269 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 331.34% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (60 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

57%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 128
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit AAC, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 800 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
87%
GPU
94%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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