Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2650MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
891274
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+145%
2186467
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A13 Bionic
1748
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+23%
2159
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A13 Bionic
4161
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+73%
7227
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
2650 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
8 MB
L2 cache
2.75 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
7 nm
Process
4 nm
8.5
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 825
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
1150 MHz
4
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
-
4
Max size
24
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.1
OpenCL version
-
12.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
-
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
-
-
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Apr 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
SM8735
