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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 870 vs A14 Bionic – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 870 Vs A14 Bionic

Snapdragon 870
VS
A14 Bionic
Snapdragon 870
A14 Bionic
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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 870
61
A14 Bionic
78
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870
53
A14 Bionic
74
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870
75
A14 Bionic
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870
63
A14 Bionic
78

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
  • Snapdragon 870 has 3.23% higher CPU clock speed than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 3100 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 29.03% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (44 vs 34.1 MHz).
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
  • A14 Bionic has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 16.58% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (751 K vs 644 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 870
vs
A14 Bionic

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870
644114
A14 Bionic +17%
750935
CPU 179347 203493
GPU 270188 284242
Memory 98761 131989
UX 95818 131211
Total score 644114 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 870
1038
A14 Bionic +55%
1611
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 870
3569
A14 Bionic +18%
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 - 4.5 Mnodes/s
SQLite 989.1 Mnodes/s 1060 Mnodes/s

3DMark

33%
SD 870
65%
A14 Bionic Chip
Score: 8375

Stability 90% 77%
Graphics test 25 FPS 50 FPS
Score 4258 8375

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 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

92%
SD 870
90%
A14 Bionic Chip
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3200 MHz 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache 512 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 7 nm 5 nm
Transistor count - 11.8 Billion
TDP 10 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 650 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Adreno 600 -
GPU frequency 645 MHz -
Execution units 2 4
Shading units 512 -
FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -
DirectX version 12 -

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Neural Engine
Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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 870
2500
A14 Bionic
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 870
7500
A14 Bionic
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 870
316
A14 Bionic
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 870
3000
A14 Bionic
2500
Modem X55 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3000 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 January 2021 September 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8250-ACSM8250-AC APL1W01
Official page Snapdragon 870 official site A14 Bionic official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
CPU
61%
GPU
53%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

55.25


Review By TenzysTech
Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 Bionic
CPU
78%
GPU
74%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

58.5


Review By TenzysTech

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