Overview - Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 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 6 Gen 1 24
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 18
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 43
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 105049 475293
GPU 110865 719585
Memory 90267 259838
UX 87211 385136
Total score 393392 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 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 367.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (1,840 K vs 393 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 172.73% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 (60 vs 22 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 779
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 2269
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • 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 4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1490 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 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 22 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 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 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, 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 X62 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 2900 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 1600 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 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 6 Gen 1

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18 Pro

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