Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A13 Bionic

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Apple A15 Bionic Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.6298 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2650MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +58%

1290037

Apple A13 Bionic

811843

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +32%

2333

Apple A13 Bionic

1755

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +37%

5741

Apple A13 Bionic

4168

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic +172%

1712

Apple A13 Bionic

629

Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

3230 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

6

Cores

6

12 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

5 nm

Process

7 nm

15

Transistor count

8.5

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

5

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

64

6

Max size

4

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.1

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

-

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