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Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A13 Bionic
Rank 2 - 86 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 60 %
Apple A13 Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
1,710
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
1,532
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
3,599
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
6,133
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
1,336
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
1,089
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
3,429
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
5,632

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A13 (1)Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ3 (1)
ArchitectureA13 (Lightning / Thunder)Kryo 680
Technology7 nm5 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A12 Bionic
SuccessorApple A14 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Lightning
2.65 GHz
4x Kryo 680 Gold
3.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Thunder
1.80 GHz
4x Kryo 680 Silver
2.40 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
GPU nameApple A13Qualcomm Adreno 690
GPU frequency1.35 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 /
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory4 GB
Technology7 nm7 nm
Release dateQ3/2019Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-2133 (68.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB16 GB
Memory channels18
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
TDP6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid, Windows 10 (ARM)
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2019Q3/2022
Release price
Documents

Your rating

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Apple A13 Bionic
Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz

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