Comparison of Apple A13 Bionic and Apple A12X Bionic

Attribute	Apple A12X Bionic ×	Apple A13 Bionic ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Apple
Series	Apple A series	Apple A series
Model	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple A13 Bionic
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	1.59	1.8
CPU Threads	8	6
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	4x Vortex	2x Lightning
B core	4x Tempest	4x Thunder
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.49	2.65
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.65
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	2.49	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
VP8	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AVC	Decode	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A12X	Apple A13
GPU frequency (GHz)	1.59	1.8
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	2.49	2.7
Generation	9	10
Execution units	7	4
Shader	0	384
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	6	4
Max. displays	2	1
GPU Release date (year)	2018	2019
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	LPDDR4X-4266
Max. Memory (GB)	16	4
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2018	2019
Technology (Nm)	7	7
Virtualization	none	none
L2-Cache (MB)	8	8
Architecture	A12	A13
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	15	6
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	968	732
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,118	1,334
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	4,657	3,524
AnTuTu 8 benchmark	713,640	523,650