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55

Points
Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic

95

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 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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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A14 Bionic 42
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 41
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 99
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 55
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 95
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU 203493 635739
GPU 284242 1237734
Memory 131989 460296
UX 131211 457187
Total score 750935 2790956
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 150.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (5333 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 40% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 271.66% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (2,791 K vs 751 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) Support 150.44% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (85.4 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 3155

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 9723

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

3DMark

43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
121%
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Stability %

Graphics test 140 FPS
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

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

107%
Base Frequency

4320 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
     2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
    6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 11.8 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A14 GPU Adreno 830
  • Architecture - Adreno 800
  • GPU frequency - 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 4 -
  • Shading units - 768
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.0
  • DirectX version - 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 85.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2540
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 X80
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
  • 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
42%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU
98%
GPU
99%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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