Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A13 Bionic +248%

811843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A13 Bionic +348%

1755

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A13 Bionic +422%

4168

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

Apple A13 Bionic +88%

629

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Apple A13 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2650 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

6

Cores

4

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

7 nm

Process

14 nm

8.5

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 530

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 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

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 680

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, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

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

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Aug 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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