Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 7200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 7200 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 7200 31
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 7200 27
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 7200 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 7200 48
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 7200
CPU 247110 160410
GPU 408357 202112
Memory 162944 119625
UX 146541 144980
Total score 964952 627127
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 23.57% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7200 (3460 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 53.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7200 (965 K vs 627 K).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 7200 889

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 7200 2376

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 7200

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 7200

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 7200

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 7200

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 7200

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 7200

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 7200

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 24 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - QHD+@90 Hz, FHD+@144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2560 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G610 MC4
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz -
  • Execution units 6 4
  • Shading units 768 512
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 40.7 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Mediatek APU 650
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2560 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - 2CC 5G Modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 7200

CPU
31%
GPU
27%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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