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78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Snapdragon 690

78

Points
Apple A18

Apple A18
Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 690 22
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Apple A18
CPU 110385 421143
GPU 76645 615010
Memory 63724 178670
UX 94636 345874
Total score 345390 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 102% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (4040 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 351.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (1,561 K vs 345 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Apple A18

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Apple A18

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Apple A18

3DMark

4%
Snapdragon 690
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
N/A
Apple A18
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
     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 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 128
  • 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 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 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 692 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 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, VP8, 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 X51 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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

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Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A18

Apple A18
CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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