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Apple A4 vs Apple A14 Bionic

Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Apple A4 on one side and the Apple A14 Bionic on the other side. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 2 cores, 2 threads, a maximum frequency of 1.0GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 6 cores, 6 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 3.1 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the date of first broadcast, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values ​​obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15.

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Specifications:

Processor		Apple A4				Apple A14 Bionic
Market		Smartphone				Smartphone
Family		A series				A series
Part number(s), S-Spec		S5L8930X				APL1W01
Release date		Q1 2010				Q3 2020
Lithography		45 nm				5 nm
Transistors		149,000,000				11,800,000,000
Cores		2				6
Threads		2				6
Base frequency		1.0 GHz				1.8 GHz
Turbo frequency		-				3.1 GHz
Energy cores		2x ARM Cortex-A8 @ 1.0 GHz				4x Apple Icestorm @ 1.8 GHz
High performance cores		-				2x Apple Firestorm @ 3.1 GHz
Cache memory		512 KB				8 MB
Max memory capacity		512 MB				6 GB
Memory types		DDR SDRAM				LPDDR4X DRAM
Max # of memory channels		2				4
Max memory bandwidth		3.2 GB/s				42.7 GB/s
TDP		5 W				6 W
GPU integrated graphics		Imagination PowerVR SGX535				Apple A14 Bionic GPU
GPU execution units		2				4
GPU shading units		8				-
GPU max clock rate		200 MHz				-
GPU FP32 floating point		1.6 GFLOPS				-
AnTuTu		5,100				562,639
(iOS 64-bit) Geekbench 4 single core		211				6,654
(iOS 64-bit) Geekbench 4 multi-core		211				16,840
(SGEMM) GFLOPS performance		0.5 GFLOPS				226.8 GFLOPS
(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio		42 pts / W				2,807 pts / W
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We can better compare what are the technical differences between the two processors. The processor Apple A14 Bionic has a larger number of cores, the turbo frequency of Apple A14 Bionic is bigger, that the PDT of Apple A4 is lower. The Apple A14 Bionic was started more recently.

Performances :

Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.

	AnTuTu - Total score
Apple A14 Bionic#ad	562,639
Apple A4#ad	5,100

The difference is 10932%.

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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.

AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.


On iOS 64-bit :

	Geekbench 4 - Multi-core & single core score - iOS 64-bit
Apple A14 Bionic#ad	6,654 16,840
Apple A4#ad	211 211

In single core, the difference is 3054%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 7881%.

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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.

Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.

Equivalence:

Apple A4 Intel equivalentApple A4 AMD equivalentApple A14 Bionic Intel equivalentApple A14 Bionic AMD equivalent

Smartphones with the processor Apple A4:

Apple iPhone 4

Smartphones with the processor Apple A14 Bionic:

Apple iPhone 12Apple iPhone 12 miniApple iPhone 12 ProApple iPhone 12 Pro Max