Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Compared 2 processors: Apple A13 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A13 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A13 Bionic
904817
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
610427
CPU181570188722
GPU312411172501
Memory147974108871
UX262862140333
NanoReview Score904817610427
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A13 Bionic
6872
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
3013
Stability68 %82 %
Graphics Test41 fps18 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A13 Bionic
1748
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
930
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A13 Bionic
4161
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
2834
File Compression147.7 MB/s129.1 MB/s
HTML5 Browser87.5 pages/s75.9 pages/s
PDF Rendering104.2 MP/sec88.8 MP/sec
Background Blur14.3 frames/s8.79 frames/s
Photo Processing39.3 frames/s27.5 frames/s
Image Detection74 frames/s62.3 frames/s
HDR125.4 MP/sec91.7 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.6 MP/sec4.01 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 57 FPS (Ultra) 58 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS (Ultra) 56 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite 60 FPS (High) 28 FPS (Ultra)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends n/a 51 FPS (Ultra)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 60 FPS (Ultra) 59 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact 60 FPS (Ultra) 57 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 59 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device Apple iPhone 11 Pro (828x1792) Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro (1080x2340)

Processor

Architecture - 2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
- 4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
- 1/2.84 (Cortex-A76 Kryo 485 Gold)
- 3/2.42 (Cortex-A76 Kryo 485 Gold)
- 4/1.8 (Cortex-A55 Kryo 485 Silver)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 2650 2840
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 1 MB
L3 Cache n/a 2 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 8.5 billion 6.7 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A13 GPU Adreno 640
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1230 MHz 585 MHz
Execution Units 4 3
Shader Units 64 256
Total shader 256 768
FLOPS 629.8 GFLOPS 898.5 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.1
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 690
GPU Frequency 5 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
Max RAM 4 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 2688x1242 pixels 3840x2160 pixels
Camera n/a 1x192 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem n/a X24 LTE, X50 5G
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 20
5G Support No Yes
Download speed Up to 1200 MB/s Up to 5000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 350 MB/s Up to 1240 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS

Other

Announced September, 2019 yr December, 2018 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename n/a SM8150

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A13 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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