Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 0.5675 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2450MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A13 Bionic +139%

811843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

339384

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A13 Bionic +322%

1755

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A13 Bionic +174%

4168

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

1519

FP32 (float)

Apple A13 Bionic +10%

629

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

567

Apple A13 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

2650 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

7 nm

Process

10 nm

8.5

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 540

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

384

4

Max size

8

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.1

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 682

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Nov 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8998

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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