Overview - Snapdragon 888 Plus Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
A14 Bionic 47
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Plus A14 Bionic
CPU 216591 203493
GPU 324286 284242
Memory 138188 131989
UX 167760 131211
Total score 846825 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 12.77% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (847 K vs 751 K).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 3.51% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3100 vs 2995 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB 128 KB
  • L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 10.3 Billion 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 905 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1853 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • 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 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A14 Bionic

CPU
50%
GPU
47%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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