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Apple A14 Bionic
Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 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 43
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
A14 Bionic 48
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 A14 Bionic
CPU 211734 203493
GPU 306250 284242
Memory 133870 131989
UX 156641 131211
Total score 808495 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

  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A14 Bionic (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 7.67% better AnTuTu 9 score than A14 Bionic (808 K vs 751 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A14 Bionic (51.2 vs 34.1 MHz).

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 9.15% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3100 vs 2840 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 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

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.84 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 - 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Adreno 600 -
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 4
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1720 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 200MP, 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

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

Apple A14 Bionic

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