Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs Apple A13 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 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 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)
Apple A13 Bionic Advantages
Released 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
592031
Apple A13 Bionic
+50%
891274
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
+42%
898
Apple A13 Bionic
629
CPU
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)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
2840 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
1 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
7 nm
Process
7 nm
6.7
Transistor count
8.5
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 640
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
585 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
2
Execution units
4
384
Shading units
64
16
Max size
4
0.8985 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
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.13 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 690
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- 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
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
X24 LTE, X50 5G
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 20
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 1240 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Dec 2018
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8150
Model number
-
