Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Apple A13 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2650MHz vs 2150MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Apple A13 Bionic +242%

891274

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

319

Apple A13 Bionic +97%

629

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

VS

Apple A13 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2150 MHz

Frequency

2650 MHz

4

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 530

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

624 MHz

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6298 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

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

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

-

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