Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs A14 Bionic – specs and benchmarks

78

Points

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

78

Points

A14 Bionic

Features

Review

CPU Performance

Single and multi-core processor tests

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 57

A14 Bionic 50

Gaming Performance

GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60

A14 Bionic 48

Battery Life

Efficiency of battery consumption

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86

A14 Bionic 82

Tenzys Tech Score

Overall chip score

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68

A14 Bionic 60

Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

	Snapdragon 8 Gen 2	A14 Bionic
CPU	270867	203493
GPU	567801	284242
Memory	239879	131989
UX	198202	131211
Total score	1276749	750935

AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 3.23% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 3100 MHz).

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 96.91% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (4200 vs 2133 MHz).

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 70.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,277 K vs 751 K).

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.

Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490

A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198

A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3

A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2

A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9

A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1

A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7

A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81

A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510

A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

66%

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS

43%

A14 Bionic

Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS

Full list of technical specifications

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 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 HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 -
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -

Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%

Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

82%

Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

91%

Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%

Base Frequency

1800 MHz

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 8 MB -
Process 4 nm 5 nm
Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
TDP 10 W 6 W

Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 740 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 -
GPU frequency 980 MHz -
Execution units - 4
Shading units - -
FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -
DirectX version 12 -

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Memory

Memory frequency 4200 _MHz 2133 _MHz
Max bandwidth - 34.1 _Gbit/s
Max Size 24 _GB 6 _GB
Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit

Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 Snapdragon X70 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Wi-Fi 7 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

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Info

Announced Date November 2022 September 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8550-AB APL1W01
Official page Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 official site A14 Bionic official site

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

57%

GPU

60%

Memory

49%

Energy efficiency and battery life

86%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU

50%

GPU

48%

Memory

25%

Energy efficiency and battery life

82%

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