Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 810

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 810 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 810 23
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 810 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 810 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 810 39
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 810
CPU 247110 113696
GPU 408357 85477
Memory 162944 76385
UX 146541 105966
Total score 964952 381524
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 44.17% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 810 (3460 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 810 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 810 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 810 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 152.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 810 (965 K vs 382 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 810.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 810 621

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 810 1897

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 810

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 810

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 810

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 810

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 810

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 810

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 810

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 32
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.1
  • 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 810

CPU
23%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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