Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 9200 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 9200 Plus 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Dimensity 9200 Plus 60
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Dimensity 9200 Plus 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 9200 Plus 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 9200 Plus 70
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 9200 Plus
CPU 247110 290704
GPU 408357 600560
Memory 162944 254170
UX 146541 217772
Total score 964952 1363206
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 3.28% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 9200 Plus (3460 vs 3350 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus

  • Dimensity 9200 Plus has 33.33% higher memory frequency than A16 Bionic chip (8533 vs 6400 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9200 Plus has 41.27% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,363 K vs 965 K ).
  • Dimensity 9200 Plus Support 33.40% higher memory bandwidth than A16 Bionic chip (68.3 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 9200 Plus 1545

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 9200 Plus 5421

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 9200 Plus

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 9200 Plus

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 9200 Plus

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 9200 Plus

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 9200 Plus

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 9200 Plus

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 9200 Plus

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 61%

Graphics test 75 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WQHD @ 144Hz, FHD+ @ 240Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-X3
    3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion 17 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Immortalis-G715 MC11
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall 4
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz -
  • Execution units 6 11
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - 4736 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 8533 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 68.3 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine MediaTek APU 690
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 - MediaTek T800
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • 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 9200 Plus

CPU
60%
GPU
63%
Memory
100%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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