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Apple A13 Bionic

Apple A13 Bionic

The Apple A13 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone 11 series. It was announced late 2019 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. Compared to the previous A12 Bionic, the A13 should offer a 20% improved CPU performance at 40% lower power (according to Apple).

With 8.5 billion transistors, the A13 Bionic is a big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion).

CodenameLightning and Thunder
SeriesApple Apple A-Series
Clock Rate <=2660 MHz
Level 1 Cache832 KB
Level 2 Cache12 MB
Number of Cores / Threads6 / 6
Transistor Count6900 Million
Manufacturing Technology7 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
GPUApple A13 Bionic GPU
NPU / AI6 TOPS INT8
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date09/15/2019

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 33851     avg: 33885     median: 33881 (27%)     max: 33925 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 2078     avg: 2803     median: 2958 (28%)     max: 3219 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 3411     avg: 3780     median: 3877 (44%)     max: 4052 Points
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Geekbench 6.5 - Geekbench 6.5 Single-Core
1760 points (41%)
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Geekbench 6.5 - Geekbench 6.5 Multi-Core
4135 points (14%)
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1326     avg: 1333     median: 1332 (45%)     max: 1342 points
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3235     avg: 3381     median: 3378.5 (6%)     max: 3531 points
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Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1343     avg: 1343     median: 1343 (6%)     max: 1344 points
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Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3242     avg: 3427     median: 3463 (11%)     max: 3575 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 545     avg: 562     median: 571 (1%)     max: 573 ms
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 47288     avg: 48727     median: 48991 (32%)     max: 49388 Points
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WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 146     avg: 179.2     median: 183 (31%)     max: 202 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 10494     avg: 12510     median: 12592 (39%)     max: 14443 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 77118     avg: 77810     median: 78032 (96%)     max: 78279 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 218738     avg: 219891     median: 218937 (68%)     max: 221998 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 147281     avg: 149542     median: 148191 (91%)     max: 153154 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 456891     avg: 459752     median: 459850 (81%)     max: 462516 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
min: 64361     avg: 75201     median: 78294 (65%)     max: 82947 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 67691     avg: 75819     median: 74262 (60%)     max: 85504 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 190559     avg: 203672     median: 209164 (38%)     max: 211292 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 149088     avg: 156731     median: 152919 (55%)     max: 168185 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 489463     avg: 511422     median: 510245 (49%)     max: 534558 Points
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Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
622382 Points (30%)
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Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
147649 Points (37%)
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Antutu v10 - AnTuTu v10 Total Score
904153 Points (26%)
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Antutu v10 - AnTuTu v10 CPU
236453 Points (23%)
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 650706     avg: 678820     median: 683897 (90%)     max: 701856 Points
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CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
min: 776     avg: 835     median: 849 (30%)     max: 864 Points
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Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
7 Watt (3%)
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Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
2.9 Watt (2%)
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Other CPUs of the series Apple A-Series

» Apple A19 Pro
   6x 2.6 GHz - 4.26 GHz
» Apple A19
   6x 2.6 GHz - 4.26 GHz
» Apple A18 Pro
   6x 2.42 GHz - 4.04 GHz
» Apple A18
   6x 2.42 GHz - 4.04 GHz
» Apple A17 Pro
   6x 2.11 GHz - 3.78 GHz
» Apple A16 Bionic
   6x 2.02 GHz - 3.46 GHz
» Apple A15 Bionic
   6x 2.02 GHz - 3.23 GHz
» Apple A12Z Bionic
   8x - 2.49 GHz
» Apple A14 Bionic
   6x 1.8 GHz - 3.1 GHz
» Apple A12X Bionic
   8x - 2.49 GHz
» Apple A13 Bionic
   6x - 2.66 GHz
» Apple A12 Bionic
   6x - 2.49 GHz
» Apple A11 Bionic
   6x - 2.39 GHz
» Apple A10X Fusion
   6x 2.39 GHz
» Apple A10 Fusion
   4x 2.34 GHz
» Apple A6x
   2x 1.4 GHz
» Apple A6
   2x 1 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ MediaTek Dimensity 8200
   8x 2 GHz - 3.1 GHz
+ MediaTek Dimensity 8350
   8x 2.2 GHz - 3.35 GHz
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 SM7750-AB
   8x 1.8 GHz - 2.8 GHz
+ Google Tensor G4
   8x 1.95 GHz
+ MediaTek Dimensity 8300
   8x 2.2 GHz - 3.35 GHz
» Apple A13 Bionic
   6x - 2.66 GHz
- Samsung Exynos 2200
   8x 1.82 GHz - 2.8 GHz
- HiSilicon Kirin 9000W
   8x 1.53 GHz - 2.49 GHz
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
   8x 1.8 GHz - 3 GHz
- HiSilicon Kirin 9000E
   8x 2.05 GHz - 3.13 GHz
- HiSilicon Kirin 9000
   8x 2.05 GHz - 3.13 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2026-01- 8)