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Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 2 - 94 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 82 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,710

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,657

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,599

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

4,231

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,336

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,228

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,429

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

3,924

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A13

691

Qualcomm Adreno 730

818

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

648,406 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,032,680 pts

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A13 (1)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 7/8 Gen 1 (3)
Architecture	A13 (Lightning / Thunder)	Cortex-X2 / -A710 / -A510
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Successor	Apple A14 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Lightning 2.65 GHz	1x Kryo Prime 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Thunder 1.80 GHz	3x Kryo Gold 2.75 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Kryo Silver 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	2.00 MB
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
GPU name	Apple A13	Qualcomm Adreno 730
GPU frequency	1.35 GHz	0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	0
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	8 GB
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2019	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS	Hexagon
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
TDP	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android, Windows 10 (ARM)
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv9-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2019	Q2/2022
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A13 Bionic is 3.8 stars (187 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 has received 4.4 stars (67 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

★★★★★