Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 7025

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 7025 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 7025 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Dimensity 7025 21
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 7025 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 7025 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 7025
CPU 247110 163789
GPU 408357 78876
Memory 162944 118764
UX 146541 135743
Total score 964952 497172
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 7025 (3460 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 7025 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 7025 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 7025 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 94.09% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7025 (965 K vs 497 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 7025.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 7025 1028

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 7025 2430

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 7025

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 7025

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 7025

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 7025

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 7025

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 7025

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 7025

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @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

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 10 Billion
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU IMG BXM-8-256
  • Architecture Apple GPU PowerVR IMG GPU
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 6 8
  • Shading units 768 18
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.0
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 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 Yes
  • 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 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K 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 5
  • 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 7025

CPU
33%
GPU
21%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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