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| General information | |
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| Launched | September 10, 2019 |
| Designed by | Apple Inc. |
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| Max.CPUclock rate | to 2.65 GHz |
| Cache | |
| L2 cache | 8 MB (performance cores) 4 MB (efficient cores) |
| Last level cache | 16 MB (system cache) |
| Architecture and classification | |
| Application | Mobile |
| Technology node | 7 nm+ (N7P) |
| Microarchitecture | "Lightning" and "Thunder" |
| Instruction set | A64ARMv8.4-A[1] |
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| GPU | Apple-designed 4 core |
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| History | |
| Predecessors | Apple A12 Bionic (iPhone) Apple A12X/A12Z Bionic (iPad) |
| Successor | Apple A14 Bionic |
TheApple A13 Bionic is a64-bitARM-basedsystem on a chip (SoC), designed byApple Inc., part of theApple silicon series.[2] It appears in theiPhone 11,11 Pro/Pro Max, theiPad (9th generation),[3] theiPhone SE (2nd generation)[4] and theStudio Display.[5] Apple states that the two high performance cores are 20% faster with 30% lower power consumption than theApple A12's, and the four high efficiency cores are 20% faster with 30% lower power consumption than the A12's.[6]
The Apple A13 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit six-core CPU implementingARMv8.4-A[1]ISA, with two high-performance cores running at 2.65 GHz[7] calledLightning and four energy-efficient cores calledThunder. The Lightning cores featuremachine learning accelerators called AMX blocks. Apple claims the AMX blocks are six times faster at matrix multiplication than theApple A12's Vortex cores. The AMX blocks are capable of up to one trillion single-precision operations per second.[7] The Lightning cores have access to 8 MB pL2 and the Thunder cores share 4 MB L2. The SLC is 16 MB.[8]
The A13 integrates an Apple-designed four-coregraphics processing unit (GPU) with 20% faster graphics performance and 40% lower power consumption than the A12's. Apple claims their A13's eight-core Neural Enginededicated neural network hardware is 20% faster and consumes 15% less power than the A12's.[3][7][9]
It is manufactured byTSMC on their 2nd generation7 nm N7P (not to be confused with '7 nm+' or 'N7+'),[10] and contains 8.5 billiontransistors.[11][12]
The A13 has video codec encoding support forHEVC andH.264. It has decoding support for HEVC, H.264,MPEG‑4 Part 2, andMotion JPEG.[13]
| SoC | A13 (7 nm enhanced) | A12 (7 nm) |
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| Process node | TSMC N7P | TSMC N7 |
| Total die | 98.48 | 83.27 |
| Big core | 2.61 | 2.07 |
| Small core | 0.58 | 0.43 |
| CPU complex (incl. cores) | 13.47 | 11.16 |
| GPU core | 3.25 | 3.23 |
| GPU total | 15.28 | 14.88 |
| NPU | 4.64 | 5.79 |
| Preceded by | Apple A13 Bionic 2019 | Succeeded by |
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