Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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Apple A14 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic +308%

1061696

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +546%

2087

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic +482%

4820

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic +105%

654

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Apple A14 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

3100 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

6

Cores

4

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

5 nm

Process

14 nm

11.8

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 530

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

6

Max size

8

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 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

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 680

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

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, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2020

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

MSM8996

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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