Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 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 8 Gen 1 43
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 46
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 58
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 249768 475293
GPU 448381 719585
Memory 172528 259838
UX 166045 385136
Total score 1036722 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 86.25% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (1490 vs 800 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 77.47% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (1,840 K vs 1,037 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (60 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
    3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 3 -
  • Shading units 768 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K 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 X65 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 10240 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2560 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3072 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU
43%
GPU
46%
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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