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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
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
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| 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.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 110.2 Mpixels/s | 171.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 13.1 images/s | 33.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 27.3 words/s | 94.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | 26.1 images/s | 93.1 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 15.7 images/s | 38.7 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 2.16 Mnodes/s | 4.5 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 533.6 Mnodes/s | 1060 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
8%
SD 720G65%
A14 Bionic ChipScore: 8375
| Stability | 99% | 77% |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | 50 FPS |
| Score | 1037 | 8375 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G and Apple A14 BionicDisplay
| 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 | - |
CPU
61%
SD 720G82%
A14 Bionic Chip
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| 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 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2300 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| 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 |
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 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 13.91 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
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+ |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | X15 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 15 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | - | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | - | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.1 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | January 2020 | September 2020 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | SM7125 | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Snapdragon 720G official site | A14 Bionic official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G
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Apple A14 Bionic
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