Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 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 3 75
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 74
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 78
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Apple A18
CPU 495720 421143
GPU 914123 615010
Memory 361002 178670
UX 338475 345874
Total score 2109320 1560697
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 3

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 28.00% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (4800 vs 3750 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 35.15% better AnTuTu 9 score than Apple A18 (2,109 K vs 1,561 K).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 22.42% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4040 vs 3300 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 81.56% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (1398 vs 770 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
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 8K @ 30 Hz -
  • HDR HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

56%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 12 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 750 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 770 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4800 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 77 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 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 X75 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 10000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 7 7
  • Bluetooth 5.4 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 3

CPU
75%
GPU
74%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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