Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 . 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 0.284 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2400MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A13 Bionic +187%

891274

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

310059

FP32 (float)

Apple A13 Bionic +121%

629

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

284

Apple A13 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

2650 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.4-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

6 nm

8.5

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 610

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

1110 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.284 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.1

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

5 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

-

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SM6225

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

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