Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A13 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 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 8s Gen 4 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+145%
2186467
Apple A13 Bionic
891274
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+23%
2159
Apple A13 Bionic
1748
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+73%
7227
Apple A13 Bionic
4161
CPU
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
3200 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
2.75 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
8.5
-
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 825
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
1150 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
-
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
-
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.1
-
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
76.8 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 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
-
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- 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
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 4200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Apr 2025
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8735
Model number
-
