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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 release date, 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 (main) | Smartphone | Smartphone | ||||||
| ISA | ARMv7 (32-bit) | ARMv8.5-A (64-bit) | ||||||
| Microarchitecture | Cortex-A8 | Firestorm, Icestorm | ||||||
| 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 | - | 4x Apple Icestorm @ 1.8 GHz | ||||||
| High performance cores | 2x ARM Cortex-A8 @ 1.0 GHz | 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 cores | - | 4 | ||||||
| GPU execution units | 2 | 64 | ||||||
| GPU shading units | 8 | 512 | ||||||
| GPU base clock | - | 975 MHz | ||||||
| GPU boost clock | 200 MHz | 975 MHz | ||||||
| GPU FP32 floating point | 1.6 GFLOPS | 998.4 GFLOPS | ||||||
| Socket | SoC | SoC | ||||||
| AI accelerator | - | Neural Engine 16-core | ||||||
| AI computing operations per seconds | - | 11 TOPS | ||||||
| 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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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 |
562,639 |
| Apple A4 |
5,100 |
The difference is 10932%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
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 |
6,654 16,840 |
| Apple A4 |
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.
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 equivalentSmartphones with the processor Apple A4:
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