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30

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Snapdragon 678

96

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 678 18
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 30
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 101216 475293
GPU 51346 719585
Memory 48181 259838
UX 82701 385136
Total score 283444 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 76.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1490 vs 845 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 72.73% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (3 vs 11 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 549.11% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (1,840 K vs 283 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 302.68% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (60 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

2%
Snapdragon 678
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

42%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
     2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 128
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops 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 14.9 Gbit/s 60 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 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 X12 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 600 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • 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

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Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
CPU
18%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

Apple A18 Pro

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