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55

Points
Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic

78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Overview - 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A14 Bionic 42
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 75
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 41
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 74
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 55
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 78
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
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.
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

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

3DMark

43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
N/A
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

56%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

  • 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
  • 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

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 - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 77 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 2500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • 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 Gen 3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU
75%
GPU
74%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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