Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple A14 Bionic: What is the difference?

Has integrated LTE

✔

Apple A13 Bionic

✔

Apple A14 Bionic

The system on a chip (SoC) has an integrated LTE cellular chip. LTE is capable of downloading at faster speeds than older, 3G technology.

download speed

1200MBits/s

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Apple A14 Bionic)

The download speed is a measurement of the internet connection bandwidth, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can access online content.

upload speed

220MBits/s

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Apple A14 Bionic)

The upload speed is a measurement of the internet connection bandwidth, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can send information to a server or another device.

Has TrustZone

✔

Apple A13 Bionic

✔

Apple A14 Bionic

A technology integrated into the processor to secure the device for use with features such as mobile payments and streaming video using digital rights management (DRM).

uses multithreading

✖

Apple A13 Bionic

✖

Apple A14 Bionic

Multithreading technology (such as Intel’s Hyperthreading or AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading) provides increased performance by splitting each of the processor’s physical cores into virtual cores, also known as threads. This way, each core can run two instruction streams at once.

Has NX bit

✔

Apple A13 Bionic

✔

Apple A14 Bionic

NX bit helps protect the computer from malicious attacks.

bits executed at a time

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Apple A13 Bionic)

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Apple A14 Bionic)

NEON provides acceleration for media processing, such as listening to MP3s.

Has AES

✔

Apple A13 Bionic

✔

Apple A14 Bionic

AES is used to speed up encryption and decryption.

VFP version

4

Unknown. Help us by suggesting a value. (Apple A14 Bionic)

Vector Floating-Point (VFP) is used by the processor to deliver increased performance in areas such as digital imaging.