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Apple A18
Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Apple A18
CPU 101216 421143
GPU 51346 615010
Memory 48181 178670
UX 82701 345874
Total score 283444 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 678 (4040 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 65.44% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1398 vs 845 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 72.73% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (3 vs 11 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 450.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (1,561 K vs 283 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Apple A18

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Apple A18

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 128
  • FLOPS 354 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 14.9 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP 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, 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 X12 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No 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

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

Apple A18

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