What is the difference between Apple A13 Bionic and Apple A12 Bionic? Should you buy phone having Apple A13 Bionic or should go for Apple A12 Bionic? Well, you'll get all your questions cleared here.Compare two chipset models on the basis of their benchmark score (AnTuTu and Geekbench), pros and cons, technical specs categorised into gaming, CPU, GPU, Multimedia, and Connectivity.
Apple A13 Bionic has a AnTuTu benchmark score of 526466 and Apple A12 Bionic has AnTuTu score of 407476. Apple A13 Bionic comes up with 6 cores, 2660 MHz frequency and on the other hand, Apple A12 Bionic has 6 cores and 2490 MHz frequency.
Go through detailed comparison below to see the actual difference and similarity between both chipsets.
Specifications | A13 Bionic | A12 Bionic |
---|---|---|
Total score | 526466 | 407476 |
Frequency | 2660 MHz | 2490 MHz |
Max display resolution | 2688 x 1242 | 2688 x 1242 |
AnTuTu Score | ||
CPU | 158367 | 129259 |
GPU | 218423 | 148052 |
Memory | 65604 | 56934 |
UX | 80367 | 63018 |
Total score | 526466 | 407476 |
Connectivity Features | ||
4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 18 |
5G support | No | No |
Download speed | Up to 1200 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
Upload speed | Up to 220 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
Performance | ||
Processor | 2x 2.66 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder | 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
Cores | 6 | 6 |
Frequency | 2660 MHz | 2490 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv8.3-A | ARMv8.3-A |
L1 cache | 48 KB | 128 KB |
L2 cache | 4 MB | 8 MB |
Process | 7 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
Transistor count | 8.5 billion | 6.9 billion |
TDP | 6 W | 6 W |
Geekbench Score | ||
Image compression | 151.6 Mpixels/s | 131.35 Mpixels/s |
Face detection | 29.65 images/s | 17.45 images/s |
Speech recognition | 87.4 words/s | 70.4 words/s |
Machine learning | 72.5 images/s | 58.9 images/s |
Camera shooting | 33.75 images/s | 17.75 images/s |
HTML 5 | 3.81 Mnodes/s | 3.17 Mnodes/s |
SQLite | 901.1 Krows/s | 670.45 Krows/s |
Graphics | ||
GPU name | Apple A13 Bionic GPU | Apple A12 Bionic GPU |
Execution units | 4 | 4 |
FLOPS | 736 Gigaflops | 560 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
OpenCL version | 2.1 | 2.0 |
DirectX version | 12.1 | 12 |
Memory Info | ||
Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 1x 64 Bit |
Multimedia | ||
Neural processor (NPU) | Yes, Neural Engine | Yes |
Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
Max display resolution | 2688 x 1242 | 2688 x 1242 |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | Protected AAC, AAC?LC, Apple Lossless, HE?AAC, Linear PCM, AAX ? AAX+, HE?AAC v2, MP3 |
Game Performance | ||
PUBG Mobile | 57 FPS [Ultra] | |
Call of Duty: Mobile | 60 FPS [Ultra] | |
Fortnite | 60 FPS [High] | |
World of Tanks Blitz | 60 FPS [Ultra] | |
Genshin Impact | 59 FPS [Ultra] | |
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [Ultra] | |
Device | Apple iPhone 11 Pro 828 x 1792 |
Apple A13 Bionic has been announced on September 2019 whereas Apple A12 Bionic has been announced on September 2018. Check out detailed comparison with key specs below:
Benchmark measures the performance of the CPU. Geekbench is a benchmark that measures a processor's single core performance and AnTuTu score is the most popular and trustable benchmarking score which evaluates multi core performance. A13 Bionic has an AnTuTu benchmark score of 526466 points with CPU, GPU, Memory, UX score 158367, 218423, 65604, 80367 respectively.
CPU speed shows how many processing cycles per second can be executed by a CPU. A13 Bionic comes up with the architecture of undefined and A12 Bionic comes up with architecture of undefined. Former one has 6 core and 2660 MHz frequency and latter has 6 cores and 2490 MHz frequency. A larger cache time leads to faster performance.
In terms of multimedia, A13 Bionic has Yes, Neural Engine NPU with storage type as NVMe and A12 Bionic has Yes NPU and NVMe storage type.