Snapdragon 632 vs A14 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 (Adreno 506) with the newer 6-core Apple A14 Bionic (Apple A14 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/Vulkan
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 9.4x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 5.4x) AnTuTu 11 score β 1326K vs 243K
- Supports 355% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 7.5 GB/s)
- Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 14 nm)
- Higher GPU frequency (~76%)
- 72% higher CPU clock speed (3100 vs 1800 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 11
| CPU | 123089 | 364692 |
| GPU | 15195 | 311592 |
| Memory | 44974 | 180518 |
| UX | 60433 | 470169 |
| Total score | 243691 | 1326975 |
| Samples | Less than 3 | [55 tests] |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 72.6 MB/sec | 182.6 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 30.4 pages/sec | 110.6 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 45.7 Mpixels/sec | 123.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 12.2 images/sec | 104.9 images/sec |
| HDR | 36.8 Mpixels/sec | 164.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 1.41 images/sec | 19.1 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 7.79 images/sec | 50.8 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 1.85 Mpixels/sec | 5.36 Mpixels/sec |
| Samples | 90 tests | 22 tests |
Compute Score (GPU)
| Background blur | - | 27.6 images/sec |
| Face detection | - | 35.2 images/sec |
| Horizon detection | - | 0.54 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge detection | - | 0.79 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian blur | - | 0.83 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature matching | - | 0.24 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo matching | - | 50.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle physics | - | 1772.1 FPS |
| API | - | Metal |
| Samples | - | 17 tests |
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!
3DMark
3DMark Solar Bay
| Score | - | 2767 |
| Stability | - | 85% |
| Graphics test | - | 11 FPS |
| Section 1 | - | 13 FPS |
| Section 2 | - | 10 FPS |
| Section 3 | - | 8 FPS |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Score | - | 2229 |
| Stability | - | 86% |
| Graphics test | - | 13 FPS |
PCMark 3.0
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 6029 | - |
| Video editing score | 5429 | - |
| Data manipulation score | 4740 | - |
| Photo editing score | 8531 | - |
| Writing score | 6803 | - |
| Phones tested | Less than 3 | - |
Recent User Tests
Qualcomm Snapdragon 632
No benchmark results yet
Apple A14 Bionic
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2026-08-04 (Stelle) | AnTuTu 11 | 1288870 |
| π 2026-06-30 (Kirious) | AnTuTu 11 | 1251875 |
| π 2026-06-30 (Kirious) | AnTuTu 11 | 1251875 |
| π 2026-06-29 (Kirillkryt) | AnTuTu 11 | 1284629 |
| π 2026-06-29 (Ad_545) | AnTuTu 11 | 1216748 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 632 and A14 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 4x 1.8 GHz β Kryo 250 Gold (Cortex-A73 4x 1.8 GHz β Kryo 250 Silver (Cortex-A53) |
2x 3.1 GHz β Firestorm 4x 1.8 GHz β 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 (Sustained Power Limit) | 5 W | 6 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 506 | Apple A14 GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | Apple Bionic GPU |
| GPU frequency | 725 MHz | 1278 MHz |
| Pipelines | 1 | 4 |
| Shading units | 48 | 64 |
| Total shaders | 48 | 256 |
| FLOPS | 69.6 Gigaflops | 654.3 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 11 | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 546 | Apple Neural Engine |
| NPU theoretical performance | - | 11 TOPS |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 933 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 1x 32 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 7.5 Gb/s | 34.1 Gb/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| 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 - AAX - AAX+ - AC-3 - AIFF - CAF - E-AC-3 - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
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 | - |
| Successor | - | - Apple A19 Pro |
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