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78

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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 820

Dimensity 820
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 820 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Dimensity 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 820
CPU 247110 125662
GPU 408357 125708
Memory 162944 77949
UX 146541 106547
Total score 964952 435866
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 820 (3460 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 55.33% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (1398 vs 900 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 820 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 820 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 121.39% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 820 (965 K vs 436 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 820.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
11%
Dimensity 820
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - 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

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G57 MC5
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 6 5
  • Shading units 768 80
  • 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 1x 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 80MP, 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, 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
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A16 Bionic

Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
61%
GPU
62%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 820

Mediatek Dimensity 820
CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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