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34

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Snapdragon 685

90

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 14
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 9
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 34
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 81894 475293
GPU 39122 719585
Memory 77991 259838
UX 71216 385136
Total score 270223 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 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 580.86% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (1,840 K vs 270 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 252.94% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (60 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

0%
Snapdragon 685
Stability %

Graphics test -
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
     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 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 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 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 UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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 5.2 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 Pro

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