Overview - Snapdragon 888 Plus Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Plus Apple A18
CPU 216591 421143
GPU 324286 615010
Memory 138188 178670
UX 167760 345874
Total score 846825 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 34.89% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (4040 vs 2995 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 54.48% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1398 vs 905 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 134.38% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 Plus (7500 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 84.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1,561 K vs 847 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 10.3 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 905 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1853 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 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 780 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 X60 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A18

CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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