Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Apple A13 Bionic

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Frequency
2342 MHz
2650 MHz
Cores
4
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache
64 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
8 MB
Process
14 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
2
8.5
TDP
11 W
6 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 530
Apple A13 GPU
GPU frequency
653 MHz
1230 MHz
Execution units
1
4
Shading units
256
64
Vulkan version
1.0
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
2.1
DirectX version
11
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
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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, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 12
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
4.1
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced
Aug 2016
Sep 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
MSM8996 Pro-AC
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Official page
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AI

NPU
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Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
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5 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

Geekbench 6
391
1,748
Geekbench 6
797
4,161
FP32 (float)
334
629
AnTuTu 10
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891,274