Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 1200

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 1200 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 1200 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Dimensity 1200 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 1200 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 1200 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 1200
CPU 247110 170589
GPU 408357 233643
Memory 162944 118786
UX 146541 145445
Total score 964952 668463
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 15.33% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (3460 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 1200 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 1200 (6400 vs 4266 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 1200 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 44.35% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 1200 (965 K vs 668 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 1200.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 76.55% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 1200 (51.2 vs 29 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 1200 925

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 1200 3246

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 1200 171.75

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 1200 32.25

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 1200 51.5

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 1200 51.65

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 1200 27.35

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 1200 3.76

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 1200 931.9

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 93%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 32 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB 0.32 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 6 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 - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 29 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 Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP, 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. 19
  • 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
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 1200

CPU
36%
GPU
31%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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