The latest benchmark tests show Apple's A14 chip beating Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 in CPU single-core but manages to close the gap in multi-core, with GPU evaluations becoming more complicated.
Apple's new A14 chip is the system-on-a-chip (SoC), the muscle behind the iPad Air 4 and the iPhone 12. Snapdragon 888, on the other hand, is Qualcomm's fast new SoC seen to likely power most Android flagship smartphones in 2021. Recently, Qualcomm released its latest benchmarks scores to showcase the great improvements that its latest chip as compared to previous-generation chips. Unfortunately for Qualcomm, beating previous versions of Snapdragon is not enough to top or even equal the latest solution of Apple. Benchmark test comparisons show Apple's A14 chip beating Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 in CPU single-core, though it narrowed the gap in multi-core. GPU comparisons, in the meantime, become more complicated.
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Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 888 at the company's virtual 2020 Tech Summit. 5G took center stage during the event with Qualcomm claiming to be the first in the world to come up with carrier aggregation of Sub-6, TDD, and FDD networks with the company's X60 modem. According to some, these are the best possible speeds worldwide. Snapdragon 888 CPU and GPU performance are much better compared to Snapdragon 865, with the biggest gain coming from AI processing. Despite this, it failed to dethrone Apple's A14 chip as latest benchmarks show the A14 beating Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 in CPU single-core, although it managed to narrow the gap in multi-core. GPU comparisons of the two chips, on the other hand, became more complicated.
It is worth mentioning that Qualcomm used a reference design for benchmark testing and not an actual product that you can purchase. This means there might be some changes in benchmark scores when done with actual phones powered by the Snapdragon 888. For now, however, benchmark test comparisons show Apple's A14 beating Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 in CPU single-core, though it narrowed the gap in multi-core, with GPU comparisons becoming more complicated. In these benchmark tests, the CPU is highlighted though Qualcomm said the tests might reveal different results when it comes to its graphics chips and artificial intelligence (AI).
While recent benchmark test comparisons show Apple's A14 and A13 chip beating Snapdragon 888 in CPU single-core and managing to narrow the gap in multi-core, Qualcomm said that its biggest gains belong to graphics and AI. However, in the GPU benchmark test comparison, the A14 again topped the charts with 77 frames-per-second (FPS) sustained performance and 102 in peak performance. This was followed by the A13 with FPS performance of 70 and 91. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, on the other hand, came in third with 86 peak performance, and Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip managed a score of 59 and 82 FPS.
