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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 680 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 680 16
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680 10
A14 Bionic 47
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680 35
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680 A14 Bionic
CPU 81097 203493
GPU 38425 284242
Memory 68438 131989
UX 63600 131211
Total score 251560 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 29.17% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (3100 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 198.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (751 K vs 252 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • A14 Bionic Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (34.1 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 368
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 680 1496
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 680
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 680
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 680
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 680
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 680
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 680
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 680
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+ @ 90 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A 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
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 610 -
  • GPU frequency 1114 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 96 -
  • FLOPS - 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 17 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 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 16MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, 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

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.1 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A14 Bionic

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