Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
vs
Apple A13 Bionic
vs
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
and
Apple A13 Bionic
mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Technology: 3 nm (3 nm vs 7 nm)
- Higher Frequency: 4600 MHz / 4740 MHz (4600 MHz / 4740 MHz vs 2650 MHz)
- Newer Launch Date: September 2025 (September 2025 vs September 2019)
Basic
Qualcomm
Label Name
Apple
September 2025
Launch Date
September 2019
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8850-AC/SM8850-5-AC
Model Name
A13 Bionic
2x 4.6 GHz, 6x 3.62 GHz
Architecture
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
8
Cores
6
3 nm
Technology
7 nm
4600 MHz / 4740 MHz
Frequency
2650 MHz
-
Transistor count
8.5
GPU Specifications
Adreno 840
GPU name
Apple A13 GPU
1200 MHz
GPU frequency
1230 MHz
3.6864 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.6298 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
64
-
Execution units
4
3.0 FP
OpenCL version
2.1
-
Vulkan version
1.1
On-Device Display Support • 4K+ @ 120Hz • QHD+ @ 240Hz
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
-
DirectX version
12.1
Connectivity
-
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
X85 5G Modem-RF System
5G support
No
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
7
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
up to 5300MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Miscellaneous
24 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
- AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
-
UFS 4.1
Storage type
NVMe
4K video capture @120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
- H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP8 - VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
8K HDR video playback @60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
-
TDP
6 W
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3757
+114%
A13 Bionic
1755
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
12644
+203%
A13 Bionic
4168
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3612
+486%
A13 Bionic
616
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3269240
+311%
A13 Bionic
795606
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