Apple A13 Bionic
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple A13 Bionic is a smartphone processor from Apple. It is used in the Apple iPhone 11 and Apple iPhone 11 Pro and is also used in Apples iPad. Apples smartphone processors are usually very fast compared to the competition and achieve high results even in single-core scenarios with their two fast performance cores. The graphics performance of the Apple A13 Bionic is good but not quite competitive compared to other premium smartphone processors.

The processor uses a hybrid big.LITTLE core structure that combines two large CPU cores (Lightning architecture) with four smaller CPU cores (Thunder architecture). The differently sized CPU cores clock at up to 2.65 GHz (P cores) or 1.8 GHz (E cores). A maximum of six threads can be processed in parallel, hyperthreading or simultaneous multi-threading is not supported by the Apple A13 Bionic.

The Apple A13 Bionic also integrates its own graphics unit, which has 32 execution units and 256 shaders. The iGPU in the Apple A13 Bionic can use a maximum of 4 GB of memory.

The smartphone processor can connect up to 4 GB of LPDDR4X memory. The maximum bandwidth is 34.1 gigabytes per second, which is a good value for a smartphone. The maximum power consumption of the processor is not specified by Apple itself. However, consumption measurements suggest that the CPU can consume between 5 and 6 watts of energy. With a higher energy consumption, the smartphone would quickly overheat, which would reduce the performance of the Apple A13 Bionic.

The Apple A13 Bionic has 8 MB of level 2 cache and uses the ARMv8-A64 instruction set. Apple has been using a chiplet design in its processors for a long time and can therefore offer different CPU and GPU expansion stages relatively easily. Only Apples iOS or Apples iPad OS is supported as the operating system.

• 7-nanometer manufacturing
• Integrated Apple A13 Graphics
• Efficient Lightning and Thunder cores
• Solid everyday performance