Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Vs A14 Bionic
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 vs A14 Bionic SoCs by Qualcomm and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-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 Apple A14 Bionic
- A14 Bionic has 55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (3100 vs 2000 MHz).
- A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (5 vs 6 nm).
- A14 Bionic has 93.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (751 K vs 388 K ).
- A14 Bionic Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (34.1 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 114597 | 203493 |
| GPU | 93082 | 284242 |
| Memory | 68776 | 131989 |
| UX | 111637 | 131211 |
| Total score | 388092 | 750935 |
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
8%
SD 4 Gen 165%
A14 Bionic ChipScore: 8375
| Stability | - | 77% |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | 50 FPS |
| Score | 1034 | 8375 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 and Apple A14 BionicDisplay
| Max On-Device Display | FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz | Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | - | 2732 x 2048 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | - | - |
| Color Depth | - | - |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
53%
SD 4 Gen 182%
A14 Bionic Chip
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2000 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| Instruction set | - | ARMv8.5-A |
| L1 cache | - | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | - | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 6 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor count | - | 11.8 Billion |
| TDP | - | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 619 | Apple A14 GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | - |
| GPU frequency | 900 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 4 | 4 |
| Shading units | - | - |
| FLOPS | - | 998 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 12 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 17 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2732 x 2048 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 108MP | |
| Video capture | 1K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 1080p at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | Snapdragon X51 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 2500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 900 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | October 2022 | September 2020 |
| Class | Low end | Flagship |
| Model number | SM4375 | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 official site | A14 Bionic official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
35.5
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A14 Bionic
45
Review By TenzysTech
