Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2342MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A14 Bionic
+355%
1061696
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
233076
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A14 Bionic
+433%
2087
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
391
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A14 Bionic
+504%
4820
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
797
FP32 (float)
Apple A14 Bionic
+95%
654
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
334
CPU
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Architecture
2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo
3100 MHz
Frequency
2342 MHz
6
Cores
4
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
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A14 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 530
1278 MHz
GPU frequency
653 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
256
6
Max size
8
0.6543 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3343 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
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, H.265, VP8, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2020
Announced
Aug 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W01
Model number
MSM8996 Pro-AC
