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Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Snapdragon 685

85

Points
Apple A18

Apple A18
Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 14
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 9
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 34
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Apple A18
CPU 81894 421143
GPU 39122 615010
Memory 77991 178670
UX 71216 345874
Total score 270223 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 44.29% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (4040 vs 2800 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 477.56% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (1,561 K vs 270 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

0%
Snapdragon 685
Stability %

Graphics test -
N/A
Apple A18
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
     2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 96 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 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 -
  • 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 UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
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 -
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 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 685

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
CPU
14%
GPU
9%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18

Apple A18
CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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