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67

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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

44

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

Dimensity 1000 Plus
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 1000 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 1000 Plus 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 58
Dimensity 1000 Plus 30
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 57
Dimensity 1000 Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 1000 Plus 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 67
Dimensity 1000 Plus 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 1000 Plus
CPU 247110 157984
GPU 408357 197648
Memory 162944 78051
UX 146541 87037
Total score 964952 520720
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 33.08% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (3460 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1000 Plus (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1000 Plus (6400 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1000 Plus (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 85.31% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1000 Plus (965 K vs 521 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1000 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 1000 Plus 766

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 1000 Plus 2852

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 1000 Plus 166.4

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 1000 Plus 28.2

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 1000 Plus 45.2

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 1000 Plus 46.9

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 1000 Plus 27.8

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 1000 Plus 3.53

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 1000 Plus 883.8

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
19%
Dimensity 1000 Plus
Stability 98%

Graphics test 22 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

64%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

49%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A77
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 0.512 MB
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 9
  • Shading units 768 144
  • FLOPS - 800 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 29.87 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 4700 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 2500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A16 Bionic

Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
58%
GPU
57%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus

Mediatek Dimensity 1000 Plus
CPU
30%
GPU
26%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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