Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A18
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Apple A18 SoCs, developed by Qualcomm and Apple respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 8-core and 6-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has -44.92% higher GPU clock speed than Apple A18 (770 vs 1398 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 35.15 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Apple A18 (2109 K vs 1561 K).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 supports Infinity % higher memory bandwidth than Apple A18 ( 77 vs MHz).
Pros of Apple A18
- Apple A18 has 22.42 % higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 ( 4040 vs 3300 MHz).
- Apple A18 has 56.25 % higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 ( 7500 vs 4800 MHz).
- Apple A18 has 25.00 % smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 ( 3 vs 4 nm).
- Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 .
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 495720 | 421143 |
| GPU | 914123 | 615010 |
| Memory | 361002 | 178670 |
| UX | 338475 | 345874 |
| Total score | 2109320 | 1560697 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | - | - |
| Graphics test | - | - |
| Score | - | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4 3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520 |
2x 4.04 GHz – 4x 2 GHz – |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 2260MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3300MHz | 4040MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv9.2-A |
| L2 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | - | - |
| L3 cache | 12 MB | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 3 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | - | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 750 | Apple A18 GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 700 | Apple Bionic GPU |
| GPU frequency | 770 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Pipelines | - | - |
| Shading units | - | 128 |
| Total shaders | - | 256 |
| FLOPS | - | 1789.4 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | - |
| OpenCL version | - | - |
| DirectX version | - | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | Neural Engine |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory frequency | 4800 MHz | 7500 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 77 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 24 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | - |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP | 1x 48MP |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 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+ |
Connectivity
| Modem | Snapdragon X75 | Snapdragon X75 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 10000 Mbps | Up to 10000 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 7 | 7 |
| Bluetooth | 5.4 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | October 2023 | September 2024 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8650-AB | - |
| Official page | Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 official site | Apple A18 official site |