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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 vs A14 Bionic

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
VS
A14 Bionic
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A14 Bionic

We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (Adreno 730) with the older 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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v11
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Gaming
  7. Specs
  8. Comments

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 8 Plus Gen 1
  • Performs 2.8x better in floating-point computations
  • Supports 50% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 34.1 GB/s)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Has a smaller size transistor (4 versus 5 nm)
  • Better instruction set architecture
  • Shows better (up to 7%) AnTuTu 11 score – 1420K vs 1326K
Pros of Apple A14 Bionic
  • Higher GPU frequency (~42%)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
vs
A14 Bionic

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +7%
1420808
A14 Bionic
1326975
CPU 537485 364692
GPU 241551 311592
Memory 254727 180518
UX 387045 470169
Total score 1420808 1326975
Samples [116 tests] [55 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Asset compression 190.8 MB/sec 182.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 126.3 pages/sec 110.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 164.1 Mpixels/sec 123.2 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 114.8 images/sec 104.9 images/sec
HDR 141.5 Mpixels/sec 164.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 16 images/sec 19.1 images/sec
Photo processing 37.7 images/sec 50.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.69 Mpixels/sec 5.36 Mpixels/sec
Samples 72 tests 22 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Background blur 8.63 images/sec 27.6 images/sec
Face detection 5.22 images/sec 35.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.43 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.43 Gpixels/sec 0.83 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 24.4 Gpixels/sec 50.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 666.6 FPS 1772.1 FPS
API Vulkan Metal
Samples 39 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 Steel Nomad Light
Score 856 -
Stability 98% -
Graphics test 6 FPS -
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 2756 2229
Stability 44% 86%
Graphics test 16 FPS 13 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 12737 -
Video editing score 7462 -
Data manipulation score 12439 -
Photo editing score 32017 -
Writing score 16257 -
Phones tested 5 models -

Gaming

Table of average FPS and graphics settings in mobile games
PUBG Mobile 89 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
Call of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
Fortnite 47 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
Shadowgun Legends 114 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
World of Tanks Blitz 120 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
Genshin Impact 56 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 58 FPS
[Ultra]		 -
Device ZTE Nubia Red Magic 7S Pro
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 8 Plus Gen 1
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-14 (Rayuthme)AnTuTu 121517844
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-13 (saabinside)AnTuTu 121446039
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-11 -> vvalakisAnTuTu 111397725
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-07 (uwaiswashereagain)AnTuTu 121409462
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-01 (Euro FighterπŸ¦…)AnTuTu 121676396
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Apple A14 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-13 (Barelpunch)AnTuTu 111200682
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-12 (Z0tacxyz)AnTuTu 111294739
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Timur)AnTuTu 111199214
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (kudryash)AnTuTu 111196958
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-04 (Stelle)AnTuTu 111288870
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 and A14 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510		 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 8 6
Frequency 3200 MHz 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 6 MB -
Process 4 nanometers 5 nanometers
Transistor count - 11.8 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 730 Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 900 MHz 1278 MHz
Pipelines 2 4
Shading units 512 64
Total shaders 1024 256
FLOPS 1843.2 Gigaflops 654.3 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -
DirectX version 12.1 -

AI Accelerator

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

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gb/s 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP -
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 Snapdragon X65 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3670 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced May 2022 September 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8475 APL1W01
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 official site -
Successor - - Apple A19 Pro

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