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36

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Snapdragon 690

96

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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 690 21
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 110385 475293
GPU 76645 719585
Memory 63724 259838
UX 94636 385136
Total score 345390 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 56.84% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1490 vs 950 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 432.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (1,840 K vs 345 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 302.68% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (60 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

4%
Snapdragon 690
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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

50%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

42%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
     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 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 128
  • 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 14.9 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 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 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 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, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X51 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 2500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 900 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 210 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

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Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
CPU
21%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A18 Pro

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