Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoCs by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A14 Bionic 50
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 47
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 23
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 60
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
CPU 203493 131871
GPU 284242 163570
Memory 131989 114048
UX 131211 94884
Total score 750935 504373
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 40.91% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (3100 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 48.88% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (751 K vs 504 K).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 916

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 2106

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

3DMark

Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 1200 x 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
    2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Adreno 613
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency - 955 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X61
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A14 Bionic

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

CPU
28%
GPU
23%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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