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Apple A18
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Apple A18

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Apple A18 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
A16 Bionic chip 51
Apple A18 82
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 54
Apple A18 84
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Apple A18 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 64
Apple A18 85
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Apple A18
CPU 247110 421143
GPU 408357 615010
Memory 162944 178670
UX 146541 345874
Total score 964952 1560697
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 70.67% higher memory frequency than Apple A18 (6400 vs 3750 MHz).

Pros of Apple A18

  • Apple A18 has 16.76% higher CPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip (4040 vs 3460 MHz).
  • Apple A18 has 25% smaller sized transistor than A16 Bionic chip (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Apple A18 has 61.74% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,561 K vs 965 K ).
  • Apple A18 has latest instruction set, hence better than A16 Bionic chip.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Apple A18 3322

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Apple A18 7602

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Apple A18

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Apple A18

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Apple A18

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Apple A18

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Apple A18

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Apple A18

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Apple A18

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

4040 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 4.04 GHz –
    4x 2 GHz –
  • Cores 6 6
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Apple A18 GPU
  • Architecture Apple GPU Apple Bionic GPU
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 128
  • FLOPS - 1789.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • 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
51%
GPU
54%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Apple A18

CPU
82%
GPU
84%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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