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Apple A18
Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G Apple A18
CPU 98820 421143
GPU 71078 615010
Memory 47158 178670
UX 52126 345874
Total score 269182 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 75.65% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (4040 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 86.40% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1398 vs 750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 301.93% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (7500 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 62.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (3 vs 8 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 479.79% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (1,561 K vs 269 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Apple A18

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Apple A18

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
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 @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 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 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 128 128
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 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) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 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 384 kHz/32 bit AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 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

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A18

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