Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2150MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
+242%
891274
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
260148
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+97%
629
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
319
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
2650 MHz
Frequency
2150 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
7 nm
Process
14 nm
8.5
Transistor count
2
6 W
TDP
11 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 530
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
624 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
256
4
Max size
8
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3194 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
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
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Nov 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
MSM8996
