[8] The A18 chip integrates a new Apple-designed five-core GPU, now adding hardware accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading support to the non-Pro lineup.
Apple claims it offers 2x faster hardware ray tracing, though it's unclear if this is exclusive to the A18 Pro or available on the non-Pro variant as well.
[8] The A18 Pro distinguishes itself from the non-Pro variant with advanced media features, including improved display engines, faster USB controllers, and upgraded video and image signal processors.. Apple claims that the new video encoder processes 2 times more data than the A17 Pro chip.
Apple claims that the new 16-core Neural Engine is capable of 35 trillion operations per second, with 2× faster machine learning compared to the A16 Bionic chip.
[10] *Although the A18 is theoretically capable of the same number of operations per second as the A17 Pro, real world performances may be superior due to improvements on other parts of the SoC, such as the larger memory bandwidth.