Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 1050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 1050 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 61
Dimensity 1050 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 1050 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 1050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 1050 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 1050
CPU 247110 137500
GPU 408357 159729
Memory 162944 96303
UX 146541 129591
Total score 964952 523123
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 Dimensity 1050 (3460 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 39.80% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1050 (1398 vs 1000 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1050 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1050 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 84.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1050 (965 K vs 523 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1050.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 1050 745

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 1050 2142

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 1050

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 1050

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 1050

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 1050

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 1050

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 1050

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 1050

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 15 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+ Adaptive, CUVA HDR-vivid, HLG and Dolby Vision
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G610 MC3
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 6 3
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • 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 -
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 550
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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, 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
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • 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
61%
GPU
62%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 1050

CPU
27%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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