Apple A18 vs Apple A13 Bionic

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Frequency
4050 MHz
2650 MHz
Cores
6
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.4-A
L2 cache
8 MB
8 MB
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
128 KB
Transistor count
-
8.5
TDP
-
6 W

Graphics

GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
Apple A13 GPU
GPU frequency
1490 MHz
1230 MHz
Execution units
5
4
Shading units
128
64
Vulkan version
-
1.1
OpenCL version
-
2.1
DirectX version
-
12.1

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3750 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
60 Gb/s
34.1 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Neural Engine
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
5 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Neural Engine
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
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Video capture
4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution
-
2688 x 1242

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced
Sep 2024
Sep 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1V08
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📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,622,118
891,274
Geekbench 6
3,466
1,748
Geekbench 6
8,592
4,161
FP32 (float)
1,907
629