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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 10.71% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3100 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 177.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (751 K vs 270 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • A14 Bionic Support 100.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (34.1 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 685
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-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 600 -
  • GPU frequency - -
  • 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

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 UFS 2.2 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 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

4G Speed
  • 390 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No 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 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Apple A14 Bionic

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