Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G A14 Bionic
CPU 98820 203493
GPU 71078 284242
Memory 47158 131989
UX 52126 131211
Total score 269182 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 34.78% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (3100 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 37.5% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (5 vs 8 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 178.97% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (751 K vs 269 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 720G.
  • A14 Bionic Support 145.15% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (34.1 vs 13.91 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 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 @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 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 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 128 -
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 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) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
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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