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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

78

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Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus 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.

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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 49
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 51
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 62
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 A14 Bionic
CPU 243697 203493
GPU 478120 284242
Memory 191931 131989
UX 184166 131211
Total score 1097914 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 Plus Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 3.23% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A14 Bionic (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 46.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (1,098 K vs 751 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than A14 Bionic.
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (51.2 vs 34.1 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

51%
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS
43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

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+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2021 -
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-X2
    3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 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 - 8 MB
  • L3 cache 6 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 700 -
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz -
  • Execution units - 4
  • Shading units - -
  • FLOPS - 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X65 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8 Plus Gen 1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
CPU
49%
GPU
51%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A14 Bionic

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