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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Snapdragon 888
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 888

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 888 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 888 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Snapdragon 888 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 888 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 888 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 888
CPU 247110 211734
GPU 408357 306250
Memory 162944 133870
UX 146541 156641
Total score 964952 808495
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 21.83% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3460 vs 2840 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 66.43% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (1398 vs 840 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 19.35% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (965 K vs 808 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 888 1126

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 888 3681

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 888 177.1

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 888 26.5

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 888 67.7

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 888 59.9

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 888 37.5

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 888 3.96

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 888 1060

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
26%
Snapdragon 888
Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 660
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 840 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 512
  • FLOPS - 1720 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 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 780
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K 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 - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 888

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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