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50

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

Snapdragon 888 Plus

90

Points
Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
Overview - Snapdragon 888 Plus Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 36
Apple A18 Pro 87
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 Plus 31
Apple A18 Pro 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 Plus 50
Apple A18 Pro 90
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Plus Apple A18 Pro
CPU 216591 475293
GPU 324286 719585
Memory 138188 259838
UX 167760 385136
Total score 846825 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 64.64% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1490 vs 905 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 17.19% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3750 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 40% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 117.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1,840 K vs 847 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 888 Plus (60 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704
Apple A18 Pro 8147

3DMark

30%
Snapdragon 888 Plus
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
N/A
Apple A18 Pro
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

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 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 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 10.3 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 905 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 128
  • FLOPS 1853 Gigaflops 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • 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 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 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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 X60 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 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 888 Plus

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A18 Pro

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