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48

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Snapdragon 870

90

Points
Apple A18

Apple A18
Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 870 37
Apple A18 93
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 33
Apple A18 89
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 48
Apple A18 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Apple A18
CPU 179347 421143
GPU 270188 615010
Memory 98761 178670
UX 95818 345874
Total score 644114 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 870 (4040 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 116.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1398 vs 645 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 36.36% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (3750 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 57.14% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (3 vs 7 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 142.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (1,561 K vs 644 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Apple A18

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Apple A18

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Apple A18

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Apple A18

3DMark

22%
Snapdragon 870
Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
N/A
Apple A18
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+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
     2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 8K at 24FPS, 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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X55 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2500 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
CPU
37%
GPU
33%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A18

Apple A18
CPU
93%
GPU
89%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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