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78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Snapdragon 860

78

Points
Apple A18

Apple A18
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 29
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Apple A18
CPU 143028 421143
GPU 179320 615010
Memory 69420 178670
UX 72190 345874
Total score 463958 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 36.49% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (4040 vs 2960 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 107.11% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1398 vs 675 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 236.39% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,561 K vs 464 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Apple A18

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Apple A18

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Apple A18

3DMark

18%
Snapdragon 860
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
N/A
Apple A18
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
     2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Neural Engine
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 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 X24 LTE, X50 5G Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

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Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18

Apple A18
CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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