Apple A18 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
4050 MHz
1800 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
8 MB
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Process
3 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Transistor count
—
2
TDP
—
3 W
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
Adreno 506
GPU frequency
1490 MHz
600 MHz
Execution units
5
1
Shading units
128
96
Vulkan version
—
1.0
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
3750 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
1x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
60 Gb/s
7.46 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Neural Engine
—
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
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Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Hexagon 546
Storage type
NVMe
eMMC 5.1
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
Video capture
4K at 120FPS
1K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max display resolution
—
1920 x 1200
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 7
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.3
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Announced
Sep 2024
Jun 2017
Class
Flagship
Low end
Model number
APL1V08
SDM450
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,622,118
153,310
Geekbench 6
3,466
169
Geekbench 6
8,592
763
FP32 (float)
1,907
115
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.