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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 vs Apple A13 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 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 888 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.6298 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2650MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Apple A13 Bionic Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +173%
1720
Apple A13 Bionic
629

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
2840 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
1 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
5 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
8.5
10 W
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 660
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
840 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
2
Execution units
4
512
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
1.72 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
12
DirectX version
12.1

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

AI

-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 780
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Max camera resolution
-
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, 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
X60
Modem
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
Up to 2500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 316 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2020
Announced
Sep 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8350
Model number
-
Official page
-
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