Apple A9 vs Apple A13 Bionic

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Apple A9 Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Apple A13 Bionic +183%

811843

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Apple A13 Bionic +181%

1755

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Apple A13 Bionic +335%

4168

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Apple A13 Bionic +152%

629

Apple A9

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

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

1850 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

2

Cores

6

3 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8.5

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

6

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.1

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

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