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78

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Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic

78

Points
Apple A18

Apple A18
Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Apple A18 SoCs by Apple. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A14 Bionic 50
Apple A18 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 47
Apple A18 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 60
Apple A18 94
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Apple A18
CPU 203493 421143
GPU 284242 615010
Memory 131989 178670
UX 131211 345874
Total score 750935 1560697
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 30.32% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (4040 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 251.62% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (7500 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 40% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 107.83% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,561 K vs 751 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Apple A18

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Apple A18

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Apple A18

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Apple A18

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Apple A18

3DMark

43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
N/A
Apple A18
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

107%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
     2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture - Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency - 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units - 128
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 7500 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 6 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A14 Bionic

Apple A14 Bionic
CPU
50%
GPU
47%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A18

Apple A18
CPU
98%
GPU
96%
Memory
88%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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