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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 24
A14 Bionic 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 19
A14 Bionic 41
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 39
A14 Bionic 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 A14 Bionic
CPU 143028 203493
GPU 179320 284242
Memory 69420 131989
UX 72190 131211
Total score 463958 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 4.73% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3100 vs 2960 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 61.85% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (751 K vs 464 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 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 QHD @ 60Hz 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

73%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache - 8 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 384 -
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Neural Engine
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 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 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 X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 5000 Mbps 7500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 2000 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed 1200 Mbps 2500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
24%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
42%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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