Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 8 Gen 2 57
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Apple A18
CPU 270867 421143
GPU 567801 615010
Memory 239879 178670
UX 198202 345874
Total score 1276749 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 26.25% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4040 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 42.65% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1398 vs 980 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 78.57% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (7500 vs 4200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 22.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1,561 K vs 1,277 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Apple A18

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Apple A18

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Apple A18

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X70 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 7 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

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