Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs Apple A13 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 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

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8.5

11 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

1

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.5 GB/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG

AIFF

Audio codecs

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

X9

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953 Pro

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Official page

-

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