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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs A14 Bionic – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs A14 Bionic

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
VS
A14 Bionic
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
A14 Bionic
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
46
A14 Bionic
50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
48
A14 Bionic
48
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
86
A14 Bionic
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
60
A14 Bionic
60

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 38.06% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,037 K vs 751 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (51.2 vs 34.1 MHz).
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
  • A14 Bionic has 3.33% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3100 vs 3000 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
vs
A14 Bionic

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +36%
1036722
A14 Bionic
750935
CPU 249768 203493
GPU 448381 284242
Memory 172528 131989
UX 166045 131211
Total score 1036722 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1221
A14 Bionic +32%
1611
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
3589
A14 Bionic +17%
4209
Image compression 180.6 Mpixels/s 171.5 Mpixels/s
Face detection 25.25 images/s 33.6 images/s
Speech recognition 54.7 words/s 94.8 words/s
Machine learning 56.95 images/s 93.1 images/s
Camera shooting 28 images/s 38.7 images/s
HTML 5 3 Mnodes/s 4.5 Mnodes/s
SQLite 989.1 Mnodes/s 1060 Mnodes/s

3DMark

70%
SD 8 Gen 1
65%
A14 Bionic Chip
Score: 9041

Stability 88% 77%
Graphics test 54 FPS 50 FPS
Score 9041 8375

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Apple A14 Bionic

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

79%
SD 8 Gen 1
82%
A14 Bionic Chip
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3000 MHz 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 4 nm 5 nm
Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
TDP - 6 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 730 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 -
GPU frequency 800 MHz -
Execution units 3 4
Shading units 768 -
FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2 -
DirectX version 12 -

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max size 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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+

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
2560
A14 Bionic
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
10240
A14 Bionic
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
316
A14 Bionic
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
3072
A14 Bionic
2500
Modem Snapdragon X65 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 10240 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3072 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date December 2021 September 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8450 APL1W01
Official page Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 official site A14 Bionic official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
CPU
46%
GPU
48%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

54.5


Review By TenzysTech
Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 Bionic
CPU
50%
GPU
48%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

45


Review By TenzysTech

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