Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A14 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2200MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A14 Bionic
+898%
2087
Qualcomm Snapdragon 626
209
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A14 Bionic
+426%
4820
Qualcomm Snapdragon 626
916
CPU
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Architecture
8x 2.2 GHz – A53
3100 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
5 nm
Process
14 nm
11.8
Transistor count
2
6 W
TDP
11 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A14 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 506
1278 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
96
6
Max size
8
0.6543 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1248 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
933 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
7.5 GB/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 546
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF
-
Modem
X9
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS
Info
Sep 2020
Announced
Oct 2016
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W01
Model number
MSM8953 Pro
