Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
vs
Apple A14 Bionic
vs
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
and
Apple A14 Bionic
mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Technology: 3 nm (3 nm vs 5 nm)
- Higher Frequency: 3800 MHz (3800 MHz vs 3100 MHz)
- Newer Launch Date: November 2025 (November 2025 vs September 2020)
Basic
Qualcomm
Label Name
Apple
November 2025
Launch Date
September 2020
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8845
Model Name
APL1W01
2x 3.8 GHz, 6x 3.32 GHz
Architecture
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
8
Cores
6
3 nm
Technology
5 nm
3800 MHz
Frequency
3100 MHz
-
Transistor count
11.8
GPU Specifications
Adreno 840
GPU name
Apple A14 GPU
1200 MHz
GPU frequency
1278 MHz
-
FLOPS
0.6543 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
64
-
Execution units
4
3.0
OpenCL version
-
1.4
Vulkan version
-
3840 x 2540
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
12.1
DirectX version
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
Yes
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
7
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Miscellaneous
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
-
L2 Cache
8 MB
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
-
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Storage type
NVMe
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
-
TDP
6 W
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
2804
+34%
A14 Bionic
2087
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
10057
+109%
A14 Bionic
4820
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