Quick/Comparisons
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 takes the lead in gaming performance with its Adreno 840 graphics, outscoring Apple A18 by a significant margin of 33 points.
Apple A18 boasts a 4-point lead in battery life, making it the winner in this use case, although the difference is relatively small.
Neither product's AI performance scores are available, making it a tie in this use case.
89 | CPU Performance | 99 |
63 | Gaming Performance | 96 |
96 | Battery life |
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| TSMC | Manufacturer | TSMC |
| 3 nanometers | Process Node | 3 nanometers |
| 6 | CPU Cores | 8 |
| Apple A18 GPU | GPU Model | Adreno 840 |
| Neural Engine | NPU Performance | Hexagon |
| 1918031 | Apple A19 | 3932243 |
| 601640 | CPU | 1143736 |
| 587216 | GPU | 1439012 |
| 164895 | Memory | 409747 |
| 564280 | UX | 939748 |
| 1918031 | Total score | 3932243 |
| 3466 | Single-Core Score | 3607 |
| 8592 | Multi-Core Score | 10732 |
| 286.8 MB/sec | Asset compression | 421.8 MB/sec |
| 184.2 pages/sec | HTML 5 Browser | 238 pages/sec |
| 201.2 Mpixels/sec | PDF Renderer | 286.6 Mpixels/sec |
| 297.2 images/sec | Image detection | 330.6 images/sec |
| 279.1 Mpixels/sec | HDR | 308.4 Mpixels/sec |
| 36.2 images/sec | Background blur | 40.7 images/sec |
| 90 images/sec | Photo processing | 98.7 images/sec |
| 8.68 Mpixels/sec | Ray tracing | 14.1 Mpixels/sec |
| 837 tests | Samples | 41 tests |
| 28010 | Compute Score (GPU) | 27343 |
| 49.2 images/sec | Background blur | 51.9 images/sec |
| 71.8 images/sec | Face detection | 24.9 images/sec |
| 0.86 Gpixels/sec | Horizon detection | 0.72 Gpixels/sec |
| 1.14 Gpixels/sec | Edge detection | 1 Gpixels/sec |
| 1.44 Gpixels/sec | Gaussian blur | 2.04 Gpixels/sec |
| 0.39 Gpixels/sec | Feature matching | 0.36 Gpixels/sec |
| 77.7 Gpixels/sec | Stereo matching | 115.4 Gpixels/sec |
| 2811.1 FPS | Particle physics | 4390.2 FPS |
| Metal | API | Vulkan |
| 4 tests | Samples | 26 tests |
| 26 FPS | Graphics test | 46 FPS |
| 6745 | Score | 12201 |
| 1575 | 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | 2736 |
| 1575 | Score | 2736 |
| 75% | Stability | 78% |
| 12 FPS | Graphics test | 20 FPS |
| 6745 | 3DMark Solar Bay | 12201 |
| 31 FPS | Section 1 | 53 FPS |
| 26 FPS | Section 2 | 46 FPS |
| 20 FPS | Section 3 | 39 FPS |
| 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest 4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth | Architecture | 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime 6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance |
| 6 | Cores | 8 |
| 4050 MHz | Frequency | 4610 MHz |
| ARMv9.2-A | Instruction set | ARMv9.2-A |
| — | L1 cache | 192 KB |
| 8 MB | L2 cache | 12 MB |
| 3 nanometers | Process | 3 nanometers |
| TSMC | Manufacturing | TSMC |
| LPDDR5X | Memory type | LPDDR5X |
| 3750 MHz | Memory frequency | 5300 MHz |
| 4x 16 Bit | Bus | 4x 16 Bit |
| 60 Gb/s | Max bandwidth | 84.8 Gb/s |
| 8 GB | Max size | 24 GB |
| Snapdragon X71 5G | Modem | Snapdragon X85 |
| LTE Cat. 24 | 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 |
| Yes | 5G support | Yes |
| Up to 10000 Mbps | Download speed | Up to 12500 Mbps |
| Up to 3500 Mbps | Upload speed | Up to 3700 Mbps |
| 7 | Wi-Fi | 7 |
| 5.3 | Bluetooth | 6 |
| GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
| NVMe | Storage type | UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 |
| 1x 48MP | Max camera resolution | 1x 320MP |
| 4K at 120FPS | Video capture | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| 4K at 120FPS | Video playback | 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| - H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP8 - VP9 - Motion JPEG | Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP8 - VP9 |
| - AAC - AAX - AAX+ - AC-3 - AIFF - CAF - E-AC-3 - MP3 - MP4 - WAV | Audio codecs | - AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
| Neural Engine | Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon |
| September 2024 | Announced | September 2025 |
| Flagship | Class | Flagship |
| APL1V08 | Model number | SM8850-AC |
| Apple A18 GPU | GPU name | Adreno 840 |
| Apple Bionic GPU | Architecture | Adreno 800 |
| 1490 MHz | GPU frequency | 1200 MHz |
| 5 | Pipelines | 3 |
| 128 | Shading units | 512 |
| 640 | Total shaders | 1536 |
| 1907 Gigaflops | FLOPS | 3686.4 Gigaflops |