Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs Apple A18 Pro
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
1800 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
14 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
2
-
TDP
3 W
10 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
-
320 KB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
L3 cache
-
16 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 506
Apple A18 Pro GPU
GPU frequency
600 MHz
1490 MHz
Execution units
1
6
Shading units
96
128
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
933 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
1x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
7.46 Gbit/s
60 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 546
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP, 2x 13MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 7
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
4.1
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
AI
NPU
-
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
153,310
1,890,277
Geekbench 6
169
3,582
Geekbench 6
763
9,089
FP32 (float)
115
2,289