Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Apple A18 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Apple A18 Pro SoCs by Apple. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 58
Apple A18 Pro 99
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 57
Apple A18 Pro 100
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Apple A18 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 67
Apple A18 Pro 96
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Apple A18 Pro
CPU 247110 475293
GPU 408357 719585
Memory 162944 259838
UX 146541 385136
Total score 964952 1839852
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 70.67% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 Pro (6400 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18 Pro

  • Apple A18 Pro has 6.58% higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip (1490 vs 1398 MHz).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 25% smaller sized transistor than A16 Bionic chip (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 Pro has 90.67% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,840 K vs 965 K ).
  • Apple A18 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than A16 Bionic chip.
  • Apple A18 Pro Support 17.19% higher memory bandwidth than A16 Bionic chip (60 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Apple A18 Pro 3342

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Apple A18 Pro 8147

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Apple A18 Pro

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Apple A18 Pro

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Apple A18 Pro

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Apple A18 Pro

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Apple A18 Pro

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Apple A18 Pro

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Apple A18 Pro

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

4050 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Architecture Apple GPU Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1490 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 128
  • FLOPS - 2289 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 60 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 1500 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU
58%
GPU
57%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18 Pro

CPU
99%
GPU
100%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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