Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 8300 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 8300 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 8300 58
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 8300 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 8300
CPU 247110 282796
GPU 408357 542690
Memory 162944 328720
UX 146541 249840
Total score 964952 1404046
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 3.28% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8300 (3460 vs 3350 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 8300 (6400 vs 4266 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 0.14% higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip (1400 vs 1398 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 45.50% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,404 K vs 965 K ).
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 33.20% higher memory bandwidth than A16 Bionic chip (68.2 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 8300 4886

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 8300

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 8300

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 8300

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 8300

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 8300

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 8300

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 8300

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G615 MP6
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 6 6
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 320MP
  • 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+ AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 -
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.4
  • 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 8300

CPU
57%
GPU
58%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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