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Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 vs Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 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 6 Gen 1 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 3 years late
Apple A13 Bionic Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 22GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
582743
Apple A13 Bionic +52%
891274

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
2200 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
8.5
-
TDP
6 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 710
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
-
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
-
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
64
8
Max size
4
-
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.1
-
DirectX version
12.1

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2750 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
22 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

AI

-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 2.2
Storage type
NVMe
2520 x 1080
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
X62
Modem
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 2900 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 1600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2022
Announced
Sep 2019
Mid range
Class
Flagship
SM6450
Model number
-
Official page
-
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