Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . 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 0.576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2490MHz)
Released 1 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
+38%
891274
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
FP32 (float)
Apple A13 Bionic
+9%
629
Apple A12 Bionic
576
CPU
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2650 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
8 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
7 nm
Process
7 nm
8.5
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A13 GPU
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
1230 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
4
Execution units
4
64
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.6298 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.1
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
Apple Neural Engine
NPU
-
5 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
-
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- 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
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
-
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2019
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
APL1W81
