Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

Compared 2 processors: Apple A14 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A14 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A14 Bionic
1095315
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
455674
CPU310050134774
GPU323143137678
Memory17377781181
UX288345102041
NanoReview Score1095315455674
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A14 Bionic
7655
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
1663
Stability69 %94 %
Graphics Test45 fps9 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A14 Bionic
2079
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
564
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A14 Bionic
4779
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
2074
File Compression167 MB/s104.1 MB/s
HTML5 Browser105.5 pages/s68.5 pages/s
PDF Rendering116.4 MP/sec74.9 MP/sec
Background Blur17.6 frames/s6.01 frames/s
Photo Processing51.5 frames/s20.5 frames/s
Image Detection95.7 frames/s18.1 frames/s
HDR147.6 MP/sec71.5 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.18 MP/sec3.02 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile n/a 53 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile n/a 55 FPS (High)
FortniteFortnite n/a 28 FPS (Ultra)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends n/a 48 FPS (High)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz n/a 60 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact n/a 56 FPS (Ultra)
Device n/a Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (1080x2246)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
- 4/2.8 (Kryo 385 Gold Cortex-A75)
- 4/1.8 (Kryo 385 Silver Cortex-A55)
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3100 2800
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 256 MB
L3 Cache n/a 2 MB
Process tech. 5 nm 10 nm
Transistor count 11.8 billion 3 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A14 GPU Adreno 630
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1278 MHz 710 MHz
Execution Units 4 2
Shader Units 64 256
Total shader 256 512
FLOPS 654.3 GFLOPS 727 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.1
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 685
GPU Frequency 11 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x32 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max RAM 6 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 2.1
Max. resolution 2732x2048 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x192 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a X20
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 1200 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 2500 MB/s Up to 150 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS

Other

Announced September, 2020 yr December, 2017 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W01 SDM845

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A14 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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