Overview - Snapdragon 778g Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 778g 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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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 778g 30
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 778g 24
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 778g 79
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 778g 44
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 778g Apple A18 Pro
CPU 161744 475293
GPU 156423 719585
Memory 90737 259838
UX 131554 385136
Total score 540458 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 204.08% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778g (1490 vs 490 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 778g (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778g (3 vs 6 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 240.42% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778g (1,840 K vs 540 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778g.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 134.38% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 778g (60 vs 25.6 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778g 792
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778g 2850
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 778g 175.3
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 778g 25
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 778g 41
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 778g 36.7
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 778g 34.6
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 778g 3.03
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 778g 988.8
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 14 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Up to FHD @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

59%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

47%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 2 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 490 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 684 Gigaflops 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
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) Hexagon 770 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 36MP 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 X53 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 3700 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 2900 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 210 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 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 778G

CPU
30%
GPU
24%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A18 Pro

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