Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.6896 TFLOPS vs 0.6298 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2650MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
891274
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+67%
1490645
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A13 Bionic
1748
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+15%
2019
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A13 Bionic
4161
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+33%
5570
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
629
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+168%
1689
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
2650 MHz
Frequency
3000 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
7 nm
Process
4 nm
8.5
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 735
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
256
4
Max size
24
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.6896 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
Hexagon
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
-
Modem
Snapdragon X70 5G
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Mar 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
SM8635
