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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Snapdragon 860

90

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 24
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 19
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 39
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Apple A18 Pro
CPU 143028 475293
GPU 179320 719585
Memory 69420 259838
UX 72190 385136
Total score 463958 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 120.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1490 vs 675 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 75.81% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 296.56% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (1,840 K vs 464 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 75.80% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (60 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

18%
Snapdragon 860
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
     2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 384 128
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Neural Engine
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 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 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 X24 LTE, X50 5G Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2000 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 1200 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

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Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
24%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18 Pro

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