We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus (Adreno 640) with the new 6-core Apple A14 Bionic (Apple GPU) SoC. Here you will find the advantages and disadvantages of each chip, technical specs, as well as comprehensive testing of benches, such as AnTuTu and Geekbench.
General Comparison:
The general comparison in terms of performance, power composition, battery life and Nano Review Score of Snapdragon 855 and A14 Bionic is as follows:
| CPU Performance
(Single and Multicore Tests) |
|
| Snapdragon 855 | 68 |
| A14 Bionic | 96 |
| Gaming Performance
(GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan) |
|
| Snapdragon 855 | 89 |
| A14 Bionic | 100 |
| Battery Life
(Efficiency of battery consumption) |
|
| Snapdragon 855 | 81 |
| A14 Bionic | 94 |
| NanoReview Score
(Overall chip score) |
|
| Snapdragon 855 | 81 |
| A14 Bionic | 94 |
Differences Among the Chips:
The main differences and advantages of each chip are as follows:
| Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic |
| · Has 2 more cores
|
· Has 6 MB larger L3 cache size than the Snapdragon 855 Plus |
| · Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 7 nm) | |
| · Supports 25% higher memory bandwidth (42.7 against 34.1 GB/s) | |
| · Shows better (up to 29%) AnTuTu 8 score – 605K vs 470K | |
| · Announced 1-year and 2-months later | |
| · Better instruction set architecture |
Benchmarks:
Performance tests in popular benchmarks of both chips are as follows:
| Geekbench 5 (Single-Core) | |
| Snapdragon 855 | 777 |
| A14 Bionic (101%) | 1565 |
| Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core) | |
| Snapdragon 855 | 2795 |
| A14 Bionic (38%) | 3863 |
| AnTuTu Benchmark 8 | |
| Snapdragon 855 | 470700 |
| A14 Bionic (29%) | 605864 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 855 Plus and A14 Bionic are as follows:
| CPU | Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic |
| Architecture | 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver) |
2x 2.99 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2960 MHz | 2990 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.1-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | – |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | – |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.7 billion | 11.8 billion |
| TDP | 10 W | 6 W |
| Graphics | Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic |
| GPU name | Adreno 640 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | – |
| GPU frequency | 627 MHz | – |
| Execution units | 2 | 4 |
| Shading units | 384 | – |
| FLOPS | 1036 Gigaflops | – |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | – |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | – |
| DirectX version | 12 | – |
| Memory | Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic |
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory Frequency | 2133 MHz | – |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | – |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 42.7 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 6 GB |
| Multimedia (ISP) | Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic | ||
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 690 | Neural Engine | ||
| Storage type | UFS 3.0 | NVMe | ||
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2732 x 2048 | ||
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 24MP | – | ||
| Video capture | 4K at 120FPS | 4K at 60FPS | ||
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 4K at 60FPS | ||
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG | ||
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | ||
| Connectivity | Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic | ||
| Modem | X24 LTE, X50 5G | – | ||
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 20 | LTE Cat. 18 | ||
| 5G support | Yes | Yes | ||
| Download speed | Up to 2000 Mbps | – | ||
| Upload speed | Up to 316 Mbps | – | ||
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 | ||
| Bluetooth | 5.1 | 5.0 | ||
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | ||
| Info | Snapdragon 855 | A14 Bionic |
| Announced | July 2019 | September 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8150-AC | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus official site | – |
