Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 8 Gen 2 47
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 270867 475293
GPU 567801 719585
Memory 239879 259838
UX 198202 385136
Total score 1276749 1839852
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 12.00% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 Pro (4200 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 52.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1490 vs 980 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 44.10% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1,840 K vs 1,277 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro 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 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Apple A18 Pro

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

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 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 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 60 Gbit/s
  • 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 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X70 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 10000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • 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
47%
GPU
46%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
87%
GPU
94%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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