Apple A9 vs Apple A13 Bionic
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Frequency
1850 MHz
2650 MHz
Cores
2
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache
64 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
8 MB
L3 cache
0
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Process
14 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
2
8.5
TDP
5 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
Apple A13 GPU
GPU frequency
650 MHz
1230 MHz
Execution units
6
4
Shading units
32
64
Vulkan version
1.1
1.1
OpenCL version
1.2
2.1
DirectX version
11
12.1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
Neural Engine
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
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Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Sep 2015
Sep 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1022
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AI
NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
5 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
285,954
891,274
Geekbench 6
623
1,748
Geekbench 6
957
4,161
FP32 (float)
249
629