Overview - Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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 7 Gen 3 42
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 36
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 55
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 256787 475293
GPU 272332 719585
Memory 177778 259838
UX 159966 385136
Total score 866863 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 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 112.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (1,840 K vs 867 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 134.38% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (60 vs 25.6 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

65%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 720 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1490 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS 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 Snapdragon X63 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 1600 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 7 Gen 3

CPU
42%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18 Pro

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