Snapdragon 765G vs A14 Bionic

We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G (Adreno 620) 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

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
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

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
  • Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
  • Shows significantly better (up to 2.2x) AnTuTu 11 score – 1326K vs 597K
  • Supports 101% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 17 GB/s)
  • Higher GPU frequency (~70%)
  • Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 7 nm)
  • Performs 36% better in floating-point computations
  • 29% higher CPU clock speed (3100 vs 2400 MHz)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
A14 Bionic +122%
1326975
CPU 225992 364692
GPU 68730 311592
Memory 118245 180518
UX 185007 470169
Total score 597974 1326975
Samples [11 tests] [55 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A14 Bionic +162%
2095
Multi-Core Score
A14 Bionic +189%
5297
Asset compression 87.8 MB/sec 182.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 46.3 pages/sec 110.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 61.6 Mpixels/sec 123.2 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 34.9 images/sec 104.9 images/sec
HDR 55.6 Mpixels/sec 164.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 5.41 images/sec 19.1 images/sec
Photo processing 15.9 images/sec 50.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.58 Mpixels/sec 5.36 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 22 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A14 Bionic +1281%
16822
Background blur 1.85 images/sec 27.6 images/sec
Face detection 0.88 images/sec 35.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.06 Gpixels/sec 0.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.83 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.01 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 3.33 Gpixels/sec 50.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 206.3 FPS 1772.1 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 4 tests 17 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
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
A14 Bionic +400%
2229
Score 446 2229
Stability 99% 86%
Graphics test 2 FPS 13 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 6739 -
Video editing score 5699 -
Data manipulation score 7976 -
Photo editing score 19870 -
Writing score 11348 -
Phones tested Less than 3 -

Gaming

Table of average FPS and graphics settings in mobile games
PUBG Mobile 57 FPS
[High]
-
Call of Duty: Mobile 38 FPS
[Ultra]
-
Fortnite 29 FPS
[Medium]
-
Shadowgun Legends 67 FPS
[Low]
-
World of Tanks Blitz 60 FPS
[Ultra]
-
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 55 FPS
[Ultra]
-
Device Xiaomi Redmi K30 5G
1080 x 2400
-
We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-07 (Gruk)AnTuTu 11641913
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-06 (Gruk)AnTuTu 11641913
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-23 (Guitar91)AnTuTu 11622520
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-29 (mxrcovx13)AnTuTu 11571064
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-22 (Artreg)AnTuTu 11566323
Apple A14 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Timur)AnTuTu 111199214
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (kudryash)AnTuTu 111196958
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-04 (Stelle)AnTuTu 111288870
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (Kirious)AnTuTu 111251875
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (Kirious)AnTuTu 111251875

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 765G and A14 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 475 Prime (Cortex-A76)
1x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 475 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 475 Silver (Cortex-A55)
2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Frequency 2400 MHz 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache - 8 MB
Process 7 nanometers 5 nanometers
Transistor count - 11.8 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 6 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 620 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Adreno 600 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 750 MHz 1278 MHz
Pipelines 2 4
Shading units 192 64
Total shaders 384 256
FLOPS 480 Gigaflops 654.3 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -
DirectX version 12.1 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 696 Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance - 11 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 17 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 12 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 3.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 3200 x 1800 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP -
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 X52 -
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 1600 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced December 2019 September 2020
Class Mid range Flagship
Model number SM7250-AB APL1W01
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G official site -
Successor - - Apple A19 Pro

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