Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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Apple A14 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.6543 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 3100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic

1061696

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +44%

1534534

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +4%

2087

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

2004

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic

4820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +10%

5344

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic

654

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +432%

3481

Apple A14 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

3100 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

4 nm

11.8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 740

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

1280

6

Max size

24

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.4816 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2020

Announced

Nov 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

SM8550-AB

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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