Overview - A14 Bionic Vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A14 Bionic vs Snapdragon 8s 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 8s Gen 3 70
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A14 Bionic 47
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A14 Bionic 82
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A14 Bionic 60
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 73
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A14 Bionic Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
CPU 203493 374214
GPU 284242 516258
Memory 131989 344248
UX 131211 259884
Total score 750935 1494604
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 3.33% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (3100 vs 3000 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 96.91% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (4200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 99.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,495 K vs 751 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Support 87.68% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (64 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 1611
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999

Multi-Core Score

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A14 Bionic 4209
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273

Image compression

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A14 Bionic 171.5
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Face detection

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A14 Bionic 33.6
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Speech recognition

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A14 Bionic 94.8
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Machine learning

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A14 Bionic 93.1
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Camera shooting

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A14 Bionic 38.7
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

HTML 5

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A14 Bionic 4.5
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

SQLite

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A14 Bionic 1060
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz QHD+ @ 144 Hz, 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 128 KB -
  • L2 cache 8 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • 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 735
  • Architecture - Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency - 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 4 2
  • Shading units - 768
  • FLOPS 998 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 64 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 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K 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 X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU
70%
GPU
63%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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