Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 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 480 Plus 20
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Apple A18
CPU 103367 421143
GPU 83956 615010
Memory 61234 178670
UX 96732 345874
Total score 345289 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 83.64% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (4040 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 69.45% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1398 vs 825 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 352.00% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1,561 K vs 345 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set - ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 128
  • FLOPS - 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 17 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) Hexagon 686 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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 Snapdragon X51 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, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A18

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