Overview - Snapdragon 778G Plus Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 778G Plus vs Apple A18 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 778G Plus 27
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 778G Plus 21
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 778G Plus 42
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 778G Plus Apple A18
CPU 166382 421143
GPU 177972 615010
Memory 106394 178670
UX 130486 345874
Total score 581234 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 61.6% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (4040 vs 2500 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 154.18% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1398 vs 550 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 168.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1,561 K vs 581 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778G Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778G Plus 816
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 2 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 550 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 845 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 770 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X53 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 3700 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 1600 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 778G Plus

CPU
27%
GPU
21%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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