Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple A14 Bionic
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Apple A13 Bionic on one side and the Apple A14 Bionic on the other side, also their respective performances with the benchmarks. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 6 cores, 6 threads, a maximum frequency of 2.7GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 6 cores, 6 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 3.1 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in Geekbench and Cinebench.
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Specification comparison:
Processor |
| Apple A13 Bionic | | |
| Apple A14 Bionic | | |
Market (main) | | Smartphone |
| | | Smartphone | | |
ISA | | ARMv8.4-A (64-bit) |
| | | ARMv8.5-A (64-bit) | | |
Microarchitecture | | Lightning, Thunder |
| | | Firestorm, Icestorm | | |
Family | | A series |
| | | A series | | |
Part number(s), S-Spec | |
APL1W85
| | | |
APL1W01
| | |
Release date | | Q3 2018 |
| | | Q3 2020 | | |
Lithography | | 7 nm (N7 Pro) |
| | | 5 nm | | |
Transistors | | 8,500,000,000 |
| | | 11,800,000,000 | | |
Cores | | 6 |
| | | 6 | | |
Threads | | 6 |
| | | 6 | | |
Base frequency | | 1.8 GHz |
| | | 1.8 GHz | | |
Turbo frequency | | 2.65 GHz |
| | | 3.1 GHz | | |
Energy cores | | 4x Apple Thunder @ 1.8 GHz
|
| | | 4x Apple Icestorm @ 1.8 GHz
| | |
High performance cores | | 2x Apple Lightning @ 2.65 GHz
|
| | | 2x Apple Firestorm @ 3.1 GHz
| | |
Cache memory | | 8 MB |
| | | 8 MB | | |
Max memory capacity | | 4 GB |
| | | 6 GB | | |
Memory types | | LPDDR4X-4266
|
| | | LPDDR4X-4266
| | |
Max # of memory channels | | 1 |
| | | 1 | | |
Max memory bandwidth | | 34.1 GB/s |
| | | 34.1 GB/s | | |
TDP | | 6 W |
| | | 6 W | | |
GPU integrated graphics | | Apple A13 Bionic GPU |
| | | Apple A14 Bionic GPU | | |
GPU cores | | 4 |
| | | 4 | | |
GPU execution units | | 32 |
| | | 64 | | |
GPU shading units | | 256 |
| | | 512 | | |
GPU clock | | 1,350 MHz |
| | | 975 MHz | | |
GPU FP32 floating point | | 691.2 GFLOPS |
| | | 998.4 GFLOPS | | |
Socket | | SoC |
| | | SoC | | |
AI accelerator | | Neural Engine 8-core
|
| | | Neural Engine 16-core
| | |
AI computing operations per seconds | | 5.5 TOPS |
| | | 11 TOPS | | |
AnTuTu | | 484,018 |
| | | 562,639 | | |
(iOS) PassMark CPU Mark | | 5,145 |
| | | 7,841 | | |
(iOS) Geekbench 4 single core | | 5,432 |
| | | 6,654 | | |
(iOS) Geekbench 4 multi-core | | 13,554 |
| | | 16,840 | | |
(iOS) Geekbench 5 single core | | 1,331 |
| | | 1,452 | | |
(iOS) Geekbench 5 multi-core | | 3,029 |
| | | 3,853 | | |
(iOS) Geekbench 6 single core | | 1,729 |
| | | 2,070 | | |
(iOS) Geekbench 6 multi-core | | 3,881 |
| | | 4,831 | | |
(SGEMM) GFLOPS Performance | | 154.9 GFLOPS |
| | | 226.8 GFLOPS | | |
(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio | | 2,259 pts / W |
| | | 2,807 pts / W | | |
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We see that the two processors have an equivalent number of cores, the turbo frequency of Apple A14 Bionic is bigger, that their respective TDP are of the same order. The Apple A14 Bionic was started more recently.
Performance comparison with the benchmarks:
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench.
The difference is 16%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.
The difference in performance is 52%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.
With iOS:In single core, the difference is 22%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 24%.
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Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.
With iOS:In single core, the difference is 9%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 27%.
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Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.
With iOS:In single core, the difference is 20%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 24%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
Geekbench 6 is a benchmarking platform that is capable of evaluating the performance of a device across multiple operating systems. The software evaluates processor power, with its ability to support different tasks, such as file compression, browsing; GPU computing capabilities, with image editing, video editing, gaming skills, machine learning workloads.
Equivalence:
Apple A13 Bionic Intel EquivalentApple A13 Bionic AMD EquivalentApple A14 Bionic Intel EquivalentApple A14 Bionic AMD EquivalentSmartphones with the processor Apple A13 Bionic:
Apple iPhone 11Apple iPhone 11 ProApple iPhone 11 Pro MaxApple iPhone SE (2020)Smartphones with the processor Apple A14 Bionic:
Apple iPhone 12Apple iPhone 12 miniApple iPhone 12 ProApple iPhone 12 Pro Max