Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 800U

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 800U 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 800U 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Dimensity 800U 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 800U 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 800U 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 44.17% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (3460 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 800U (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 800U (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 800U (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 139.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 800U (965 K vs 402 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 800U.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 199.94% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 800U (51.2 vs 17.07 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 800U 594

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 800U 1683

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 800U 105.3

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 800U 15.5

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 800U 33.8

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 800U 28.6

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 800U 14.4

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 800U 2.08

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 800U 534.9

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 9 FPS
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

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • 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-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 3
  • Shading units 768 48
  • 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

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

12 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 64MP, 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+ AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2300 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • 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

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

Mediatek Dimensity 800U

CPU
21%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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