A14 Bionic Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Snapdragon 8 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 6.45% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3300 vs 3100 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 125.04% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (4800 vs 2133 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 180.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (2,109 K vs 751 K ).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 125.81% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (77 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 203493 | 495720 |
| GPU | 284242 | 914123 |
| Memory | 131989 | 361002 |
| UX | 131211 | 338475 |
| Total score | 750935 | 2109320 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 171.5 Mpixels/s | - |
| Face detection | 33.6 images/s | - |
| Speech recognition | 94.8 words/s | - |
| Machine learning | 93.1 images/s | - |
| Camera shooting | 38.7 images/s | - |
| HTML 5 | 4.5 Mnodes/s | - |
| SQLite | 1060 Mnodes/s | - |
3DMark
65%
A14 Bionic Chip0%
sd 8 Gen 3Score: 8375
| Stability | 77% | - |
| Graphics test | 50 FPS | - |
| Score | 8375 | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A14 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3Display
| Max On-Device Display | Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz | 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max External Display | - | 8K @ 30 Hz |
| HDR | - | HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+ |
| Color Depth | - | 10-bit |
| Color Gamut | - | Rec. 2020 |
CPU
82%
A14 Bionic Chip87%
sd 8 Gen 3
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4 3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720 2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 2260 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3100 MHz | 3300 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv9-A |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 8 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | 12 MB |
| Process | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Transistor count | 11.8 Billion | - |
| TDP | 6 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A14 GPU | Adreno 750 |
| Architecture | - | Adreno 700 |
| GPU frequency | - | 770 MHz |
| Execution units | 4 | - |
| Shading units | - | - |
| FLOPS | 998 Gigaflops | - |
| Vulkan version | - | - |
| OpenCL version | - | - |
| DirectX version | - | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 77 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon |
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 4.0 |
| Max display resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP | |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 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 |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | Snapdragon X75 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 10000 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 2500 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 7 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.4 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced Date | September 2020 | October 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W01 | SM8650-AB |
| Official page | A14 Bionic official site | Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 official site |
Apple A14 Bionic
51.25
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
68.25
Review By TenzysTech
