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Apple A18

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The Apple A18 is a SOC manufactured by Apple, built on Apple's officially announced Neural Engine process technology. This processor features a 6-core architecture design. Overall specifications are targeted at mainstream high-performance application scenarios.

Specifications

CPU
Architecture
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
4050 MHz
Cores
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache
8 MB
Process
3 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
GPU frequency
1490 MHz
Execution units
5
Shading units
128
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
3750 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
60 Gb/s
AI
NPU
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Storage type
NVMe
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
Bluetooth
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2024
Class
Flagship
Model number
APL1V08

Benchmarks

AnTuTu 10 1622118
Geekbench 6 Single Core 3466
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 8592
FP32 (float) 1907

Performance Ranking

Geekbench 6 Single Core
8 Apple M4 iPad 3767
9 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) 3740
10 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E 84 100) 3633
11 Apple A18 Pro 3582
12 Apple A18 3466
13 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P 64 100) 3278
14 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P 42 100) 3239
15 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 3234
16 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 4 3155
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
27 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 4 9723
28 Xiaomi Xring O1 9701
29 Apple A18 Pro 9089
30 MediaTek Dimensity 9400 8969
31 Apple A18 8592
32 Apple M1 iPad 8422
33 Mediatek Dimensity 9300 7857
34 MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus 7547
35 Apple A17 Pro 7441

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