Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 vs Apple A13 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 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 678 Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Apple A13 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6298 TFLOPS vs 0.3244 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 11nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

340607

Apple A13 Bionic +138%

811843

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

685

Apple A13 Bionic +156%

1755

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

1568

Apple A13 Bionic +165%

4168

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

324

Apple A13 Bionic +94%

629

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

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Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

8

Cores

6

256 KB

L2 cache

8 MB

11 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8.5

6 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 612

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

845 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

2

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.3244 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

12.1

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 685

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 685

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2020

Announced

Sep 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6150-AC

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Official page

-

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