Apple A13 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 2500 Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520

Frequency

2650 MHz

3300 MHz

Cores

6

10

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

-

L2 cache

8 MB

-

Process

7 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

8.5

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Samsung

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

-

GPU frequency

1230 MHz

1300 MHz

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.1

-

DirectX version

12.1

-

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

5333 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Yes

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

-

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

3840 x 2160

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG

- H.264- H.265- AV1

Audio codecs

- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

No

Yes

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

-

Wi-Fi

6

7

Bluetooth

5.0

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced

Sep 2019

Aug 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

-

S5E9955

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

891,274

2,519,784

Geekbench 6

1,748

2,648

Geekbench 6

4,161

9,881

FP32 (float)

629

-