Apple A14 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple A14 Bionic Apple

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720

Frequency

3100 MHz

3200 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

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L2 cache

2.75 MB

Process

5 nm

4 nm

Transistor count

11.8

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TDP

6 W

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Manufacturing

TSMC

L3 cache

—

8 MB

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A14 GPU

Adreno 825

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

1150 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

76.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

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Storage type

NVMe

UFS 4.0

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

3840 x 2160

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Max camera resolution

—

1x 320MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

—

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 4200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.0

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced

Sep 2020

Apr 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

APL1W01

SM8735

Official page

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NPU

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Hexagon

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

1,061,696

2,186,467

FP32 (float)

654

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Geekbench 6

—

2,159

Geekbench 6

—

7,227

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.