Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 8100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100 42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 8100 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 8100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 8100 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 8100
CPU 247110 204875
GPU 408357 311503
Memory 162944 130636
UX 146541 161518
Total score 964952 808532
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 21.40% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (3460 vs 2850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 53.29% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 8100 (1398 vs 912 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 20% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 8100 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 19.35% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 8100 (965 K vs 809 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 8100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 8100 969

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 8100 4081

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 8100

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 8100

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 8100

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 8100

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 8100

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 8100

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 8100

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 94%

Graphics test 34 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2850 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G610 MC6
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 912 MHz
  • Execution units 6 6
  • 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 6400 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine APU 580 (multi-core)
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • 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 LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - R16-ready 5G modem
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • 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 8100

CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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