Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 920

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 920 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 58
Dimensity 920 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 57
Dimensity 920 21
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 920 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 67
Dimensity 920 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 920
CPU 247110 139277
GPU 408357 128453
Memory 162944 96272
UX 146541 134315
Total score 964952 498317
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 920 (3460 vs 2500 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 920 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 920 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 920 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 93.64% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 920 (965 K vs 498 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 920.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 920 792

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 920 2592

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 920

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 920

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 920

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 920

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 920

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 920

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 920

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 12 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 - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

49%
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-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • 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 4
  • Shading units 768 64
  • FLOPS - 684 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 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 MediaTek APU 3.0
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP, 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, 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. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 2770 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 1200 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 2500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 800 Mbps
  • 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
58%
GPU
57%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 920

CPU
28%
GPU
21%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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