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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 690 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690 15
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690 71
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690 36
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 A14 Bionic
CPU 110385 203493
GPU 76645 284242
Memory 63724 131989
UX 94636 131211
Total score 345390 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 55% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (3100 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 117.42% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (751 K vs 345 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
  • A14 Bionic Support 128.86% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (34.1 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 607
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 690 1852
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 690 111.3
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 690 16.9
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 690 28.8
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 690 26.7
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 690 15.9
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 690 2.25
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 690 579.5
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    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 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619L Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 950 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 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 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 692 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, 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 X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes 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 690

CPU
22%
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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