78

Points
Samsung Exynos 1280

78

Points
Apple A18
Overview - Exynos 1280 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 1280 vs Apple A18 SoCs by Samsung 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
Exynos 1280 24
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 1280 18
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 1280 82
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 1280 41
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 1280 Apple A18
CPU 121972 421143
GPU 104889 615010
Memory 77341 178670
UX 106223 345874
Total score 410425 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 68.33% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (4040 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 39.80% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (1398 vs 1000 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 1280 (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 280.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (1,561 K vs 410 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 1280.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 1280 733
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 1280 1832
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Exynos 1280 116.6
Apple A18

Face detection

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Exynos 1280 13.5
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Exynos 1280 33.1
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Exynos 1280 29.3
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Exynos 1280 13.1
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Exynos 1280 1.97
Apple A18

SQLite

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Exynos 1280 556.4
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G68 MP4 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units 48 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2. -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

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

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP 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 - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A18

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