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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

78

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

Snapdragon 778G Plus
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 778G Plus SoCs by Apple and Qualcomm 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
Snapdragon 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU 247110 166382
GPU 408357 177972
Memory 162944 106394
UX 146541 130486
Total score 964952 581234
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 38.40% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (3460 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 154.18% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1398 vs 550 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 778G Plus (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 778G Plus (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 66.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 778G Plus (965 K vs 581 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 778G Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
14%
Snapdragon 778G Plus
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 384
  • FLOPS - 845 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 25.6 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 Hexagon 770
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP
  • 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, VP8, 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 - X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • 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

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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