Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 1080

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 1080 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 1080 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Dimensity 1080 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 1080 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 1080 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.08% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (3460 vs 2600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1080 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1080 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1080 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 86.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1080 (965 K vs 517 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1080.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 89.63% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1080 (51.2 vs 27 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 1080 766

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 1080 2252

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 1080

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 1080

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 1080

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 1080

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 1080

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 1080

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 1080

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 256 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G68 MC4
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 6 5
  • Shading units 768 64
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

6400 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

27 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

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 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP
  • 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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A16 Bionic

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

Mediatek Dimensity 1080

CPU
28%
GPU
22%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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