Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A14 Bionic 50
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 48
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 37
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 60
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU 203493 256787
GPU 284242 272332
Memory 131989 177778
UX 131211 159966
Total score 750935 866863
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 17.87% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3100 vs 2630 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic Support 33.20% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (34.1 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 15.44% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (867 K vs 751 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

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 WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

70%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
    1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.6-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Adreno 720
  • Architecture - Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency - -
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
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 16 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 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP8, 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 X63
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • 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

CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

CPU
44%
GPU
37%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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