Snapdragon 8 Elite Hexagon NPU vs. Apple A20 Pro: Micro-Benchmarking On-Device INT8 Vision-Language Pipelines
An exhaustive architectural audit comparing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Hexagon NPU against Apple’s A20 Pro 32-core Neural Engine running on-device INT8 Vision-Language Models (MiniCPM-V 2.6, Llama 3.2-Vision, and Qwen2-VL).