Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A13 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.4582 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2300MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 's Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
+30%
891274
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
684046
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A13 Bionic
+54%
1748
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
1130
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A13 Bionic
+38%
4161
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
3013
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+37%
629
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4
458
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720)
3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)
2650 MHz
Frequency
2300 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
4 nm
8.5
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 810
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
895 MHz
4
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
16
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4582 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
3.0
12.1
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
25.6 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3360 x 1600
-
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
-
Modem
Qualcomm X62 5G
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 2900 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1600 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Feb 2025
Flagship
Class
Mid range
-
Model number
SM6650
