Snapdragon 632 vs A14 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 (Adreno 506) with the newer 6-core Apple A14 Bionic (Apple GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 632
- Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
- Performs 8x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 5x) AnTuTu 9 score – 717K vs 144K
- Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 14 nm)
- 72% higher CPU clock speed (3100 vs 1800 MHz)
- Announced 2-years and 3-months later
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 59142 | 196691 |
| GPU | 16534 | 272532 |
| Memory | 24144 | 120512 |
| UX | 44986 | 131640 |
| Total score | 144557 | 717091 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 82.3 Mpixels/s | 171.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 12 images/s | 33.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 19.4 words/s | 94.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | 13.4 images/s | 93.1 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 7.96 images/s | 38.7 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.05 Mnodes/s | 4.5 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 427.5 Krows/s | 1060 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | - | 77% |
| Graphics test | 1 FPS | 45 FPS |
| Score | 134 | 7609 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 632 and A14 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 250 Gold (Cortex-A73 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 250 Silver (Cortex-A53) |
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 1800 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.5-A |
| L1 cache | - | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | - | 8 MB |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | 11.8 billion |
| TDP | 5 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 506 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | - |
| GPU frequency | 650 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 1 | 4 |
| Shading units | 96 | - |
| FLOPS | 124.8 Gigaflops | 998 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 11 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 933 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | - | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 546 | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 1900 x 1200 | 2732 x 2048 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 40MP, 2x 13MP | - |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
| Modem | X9 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 7 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 300 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | June 2018 | September 2020 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | SDM632 | APL1W01 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 official site | - |
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