Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 1100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 1100 SoCs by Apple and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Dimensity 1100 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 1100 25
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 1100 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 1100 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 1100
CPU 247110 143843
GPU 408357 205643
Memory 162944 109699
UX 146541 107424
Total score 964952 566609
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.08% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1100 (3460 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1100 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1100 (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1100 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 70.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1100 (965 K vs 567 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 1100 655

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 1100 2500

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 1100 134

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 1100 34.1

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 1100 62.2

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 1100 57.1

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 1100 30.2

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 1100 1.95

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 1100 990.4

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 26 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

9%
Base Frequency

200 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 9
  • Shading units 768 144
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDRLPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - 5G-integrated modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 19
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • 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
61%
GPU
62%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 1100

CPU
28%
GPU
25%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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