Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs A16 Bionic chip

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs A16 Bionic chip SoCs by Apple. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-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
A15 Bionic Chip 55
A16 Bionic chip 61
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
A16 Bionic chip 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
A16 Bionic chip 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
A16 Bionic chip 70
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 7.12% higher CPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (3460 vs 3230 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 16.50% higher GPU clock speed than A15 Bionic Chip (1398 vs 1200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50.02% higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 19.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (965 K vs 809 K ).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
A16 Bionic chip 1870

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
A16 Bionic chip 5474

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
A16 Bionic chip 243.5

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
A16 Bionic chip 46.4

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
A16 Bionic chip 141.8

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
A16 Bionic chip 117.1

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
A16 Bionic chip 54.3

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
A16 Bionic chip 5.9

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
A16 Bionic chip 1430

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion 16 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Apple A16 GPU
  • Architecture - Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 5 6
  • Shading units 640 768
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

6400 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

6 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2796 x 1290
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP
  • 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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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