Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus vs Apple A14 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus, vs Apple A14 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus and Apple A14 Bionic
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
963578
Apple A14 Bionic
1095315
CPU266610310050
GPU304681323143
Memory174498173777
UX217789288345
NanoReview Score9635781095315
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
5462
Apple A14 Bionic
7655
Stability99 %69 %
Graphics Test32 fps45 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
1550
Apple A14 Bionic
2079
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
3887
Apple A14 Bionic
4779
File Compression169.3 MB/s167 MB/s
HTML5 Browser106.3 pages/s105.5 pages/s
PDF Rendering140.4 MP/sec116.4 MP/sec
Background Blur14.2 frames/s17.6 frames/s
Photo Processing36.2 frames/s51.5 frames/s
Image Detection87.3 frames/s95.7 frames/s
HDR122.4 MP/sec147.6 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.56 MP/sec5.18 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.995 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
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2995 3100
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache 512 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 Cache 4 MB n/a
Process tech. 5 nm 5 nm
Transistor count 10.3 billion 11.8 billion
Power (TDP) 8 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 660 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 840 MHz 1278 MHz
Execution Units 3 4
Shader Units 256 64
Total shader 768 256
FLOPS 1290.2 GFLOPS 654.3 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Hexagon 780 Apple Neural Engine
GPU Frequency n/a 11 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 3.0
- UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2732x2048 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels n/a
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 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
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem X60 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 22 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3000 MB/s Up to 2500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced June, 2021 yr September, 2020 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8350-AC APL1W01

Results

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

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