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33

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Snapdragon 680

90

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 680 13
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 8
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 33
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 81097 475293
GPU 38425 719585
Memory 68438 259838
UX 63600 385136
Total score 251560 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 33.75% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (1490 vs 1114 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 631.38% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (1,840 K vs 252 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 252.94% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (60 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

2%
Snapdragon 680
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+ @ 90 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

59%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
     2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 610 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 128
  • 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 16MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, 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 X11 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 390 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
CPU
13%
GPU
8%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
CPU
87%
GPU
94%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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