Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A13 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.6298 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2650MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Apple A13 Bionic Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
+72%
1534534
Apple A13 Bionic
891274
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
+453%
3481
Apple A13 Bionic
629
CPU
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
3200 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
1 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
8.5
6.3 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 740
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
680 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
2
Execution units
4
1280
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
3.4816 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
12.1
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
64 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
-
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Snapdragon X70
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
5.3
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Nov 2022
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8550-AB
Model number
-
