Apple A13 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Apple A13 Bionic (54/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 54)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 54)
Apple A13 Bionic
Apple

Apple A13 Bionic

54/100
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[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
DeviceBenchmark Score 54.0 Below Average 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 54.0 Below Average 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Graphics test 10 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 12 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 10 FPS 46 FPS
Section 3 7 FPS 40 FPS
Stability 74% 67%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
NPU theoretical performance 5 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
CPU 296803 1112833
GPU 301818 1494722
Memory 149834 442350
Total score 1101851 3950082
UX 353396 900177

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Architecture 2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance
Cores 6 8
Frequency 2650 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 12 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 7 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W —
Transistor count 8.5 billion —
L3 cache — 12 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Download speed Up to 1200 Mbps Up to 12500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 350 Mbps Up to 3700 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Modem — Snapdragon X85

Gaming

Gaming specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Call of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS[Ultra] —
Device Apple iPhone 11 Pro828 x 1792 —
Fortnite 60 FPS[High] —
Genshin Impact 59 FPS[Ultra] —
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 60 FPS[Ultra] —
PUBG Mobile 57 FPS[Ultra] —
World of Tanks Blitz 60 FPS[Ultra] —

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 146.8 MB/sec 421.8 MB/sec
Background blur 13.9 images/sec 40.7 images/sec
Edge detection 0.68 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 25.6 images/sec 24.9 images/sec
Feature matching 0.19 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.77 Gpixels/sec 2.04 Gpixels/sec
HDR 130.3 Mpixels/sec 308.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 90.1 pages/sec 238 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 85.1 images/sec 330.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 103.5 Mpixels/sec 286.6 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 1367.9 FPS 4390.2 FPS
Photo processing 38.5 images/sec 98.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.69 Mpixels/sec 14.1 Mpixels/sec
Samples 12 tests 79 tests
Stereo matching 45.7 Gpixels/sec 115.4 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
FLOPS 629.8 Gigaflops 3686.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1230 MHz 1200 MHz
Pipelines 4 3
Shading units 64 512
Total shaders 256 1536
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 3.0
Vulkan version — 1.4

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Announced September 2019 September 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —
Model number — SM8850-AC
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 84.8 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Audio codecs - AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2688 x 1242 3840 x 2540
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 320MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-14(Islem Nabet) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-04->TranHongPhuc GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-05(LOFEIN) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-10(NotBaoxD) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-16(Slarpunk) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-04(Feonton) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
1.Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max 1182914 —
2.Apple iPhone 11 1101851 —
3.Apple iPhone 11 Pro 1096858 —
4.Apple iPhone SE (2020) 1033357 —
Phones with A13 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus — 4716234
10.Honor Magic 8 — 4037547
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro — 4678468
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra — 4602290
4.Vivo X300 Ultra — 4247433
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus — 4244509
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra — 4231988
7.Honor Robot Phone — 4166339
8.Honor Magic V6 — 4166339
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro — 4117238
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — AnTuTu v11

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Data manipulation score — 15949
Phones tested — 13 models
Photo editing score — 40273
Video editing score — 8052
Web score — 16855
Writing score — 26073

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