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35

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

Snapdragon 480 Plus

96

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus 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 480 Plus 19
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 14
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Apple A18 Pro
CPU 103367 475293
GPU 83956 719585
Memory 61234 259838
UX 96732 385136
Total score 345289 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 80.61% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1490 vs 825 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 432.84% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1,840 K vs 345 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 252.94% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (60 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

5%
Snapdragon 480 Plus
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
     2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set - ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 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) 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 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 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, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 2500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 800 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 1500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 210 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU
19%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
CPU
99%
GPU
100%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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