Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

VS

Apple A14 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 3000MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.6543 TFLOPS )

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

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic

1061696

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +40%

1489956

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic

654

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +416%

3379

Apple A14 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

3100 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

8 MB

5 nm

Process

4 nm

11.8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 735

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

768

6

Max size

24

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 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

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

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. 22

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 6500 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2020

Announced

Mar 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

SM8635

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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