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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

90

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Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus 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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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 40
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 39
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 55
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 243697 475293
GPU 478120 719585
Memory 191931 259838
UX 184166 385136
Total score 1097914 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 65.56% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1490 vs 900 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 67.58% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1,840 K vs 1,098 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (60 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

51%
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2021 -
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-X2
    3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 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 - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 6 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 900 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units - -
  • Shading units - 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 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
CPU
40%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
CPU
87%
GPU
94%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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