Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Apple A14 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic +381%

1061696

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +607%

2087

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic +343%

4820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic +255%

654

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Apple A14 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

3100 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

14 nm

11.8

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 509

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

6

Max size

8

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1843 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.3 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

-

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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. 13

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

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2020

Announced

Oct 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W01

Model number

SDM636

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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