Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . 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 0.024 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 1400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
+552%
891274
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
136588
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+2520%
0.629 TFLOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
0.024 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
2650 MHz
Frequency
1400 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
8 MB
L2 cache
-
-
-
-
7 nm
Process
28 nm
8.5
Transistor count
1
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 308
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
500 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
24
4
Max size
4
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.024 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.1
OpenCL version
1.2
12.1
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR3
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
667 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
5.34 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 536
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
1280 x 800
-
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
- 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
X6
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 5
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 75 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
Feb 2016
Flagship
Class
Low end
-
Model number
MSM8917
