Apple releases A13 Bionic processor: a big win over Snapdragon 855/Kirin 980

At the same time as the iPhone 11 was released, Apple unsurprisingly launched the A13 Bionic processor, and extremely rarely compared it with its competitors, which is really quite unusual for Apple.

The A13 processor is manufactured using a 7nm process, has 8.5 billion transistors , and integrates six CPU cores. The two large cores have a 20% performance improvement and a 30% reduction in power consumption, and the four small cores have a 20% performance improvement and a 40% reduction in power consumption. It also integrates a quad-core GPU with a 20% performance improvement, a 40% reduction in power consumption, and Metal optimization.

There is also an eight-core neural engine (similar to an NPU), which improves performance by 20% and reduces power consumption by 15%, as well as a machine learning acceleration unit , which improves matrix multiplication performance by 6 times.

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In terms of performance, surprisingly, Apple not only compared it with the previous generation A12, but also compared it with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855, Snapdragon 845, and Huawei's Kirin 980. Of course, there is no latest Kirin 990, after all, there is no data yet.

Although Apple did not give a specific lead, as usual, there is no doubt that Apple is far ahead in this regard.

It was also surprising that Giant Network came to the scene to demonstrate the powerful GPU performance of A13. A new game "Pascal's Wager" was announced for the first time . It will be available on the App Store next month, but it will not belong to Apple Arcade.