Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2650MHz Apple A13 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Released 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.6298 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2650MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A13 Bionic +50%

891274

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

592031

FP32 (float)

Apple A13 Bionic

629

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +42%

898

Apple A13 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2650 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.4-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

8.5

Transistor count

6.7

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A13 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 640

1230 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

384

4

Max size

16

0.6298 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 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

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

5 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

- 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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Dec 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8150

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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