Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 40.91% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (3100 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 117.48% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (751 K vs 345 K ).
  • A14 Bionic Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (34.1 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 3 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 128 -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 800 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 210 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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