Overview - Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 8s Gen 3 58
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 50
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 65
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Apple A18
CPU 374214 421143
GPU 516258 615010
Memory 344248 178670
UX 259884 345874
Total score 1494604 1560697
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 12.00% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (4200 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 34.67% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (4040 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 27.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (1398 vs 1100 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 4.42% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (1,561 K vs 1,495 K ).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273
Apple A18 7602

3DMark

Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display QHD+ @ 144 Hz, 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 8K @ 30 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid -
  • Color Depth 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 735 Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1100 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 768 128
  • FLOPS 3379.2 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12.1 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 64 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 4.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 120FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 Snapdragon X70 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 6500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 7 7
  • Bluetooth 5.4 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU
58%
GPU
50%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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