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.
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 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
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 103367 | 203493 |
| GPU | 83956 | 284242 |
| Memory | 61234 | 131989 |
| UX | 96732 | 131211 |
| Total score | 345289 | 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 480 Plus65%
A14 Bionic ChipScore: 8375
| Stability | - | 77% |
| Graphics test | 5 FPS | 50 FPS |
| Score | 980 | 8375 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus and Apple A14 BionicDisplay
| 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 | - | - |
CPU
58%
SD 480 Plus82%
A14 Bionic Chip
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| 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 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2200 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| 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 |
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 | - |
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) | 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+ |
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 1500 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 2021 | September 2020 |
| Class | Low end | Flagship |
| Model number | SM4350-AC | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Snapdragon 480 Plus official site | A14 Bionic official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
32.75
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A14 Bionic
45
Review By TenzysTech
