Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Apple A18 Pro

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (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
5 W
10 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
-
320 KB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
L3 cache
-
16 MB

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 509
Apple A18 Pro GPU
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1490 MHz
Execution units
1
6
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
5.3 Gbit/s
60 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
-
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, 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. 13
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Oct 2017
Sep 2024
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
SDM636
APL1V07
Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
220,696
1,890,277
Geekbench 6
295
3,582
Geekbench 6
1,088
9,089
FP32 (float)
184
2,289