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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 678 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678 12
A14 Bionic 47
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678 61
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678 31
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678 A14 Bionic
CPU 101216 203493
GPU 51346 284242
Memory 48181 131989
UX 82701 131211
Total score 283444 750935
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 40.91% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (3100 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 54.55% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (5 vs 11 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 164.93% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (751 K vs 283 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • A14 Bionic Support 128.86% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (34.1 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 529
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 678 1536
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 678 102.2
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 678 14.5
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 678 27.8
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 678 23.7
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 678 13.7
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 678 2.05
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 678 527.2
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache 16 KB 128 KB
  • L2 cache 0.256 MB 8 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 11 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 12 Billion 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 612 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 845 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS 354 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 685 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X12 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

Apple A14 Bionic

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