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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

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Mediatek Dimensity 930

Dimensity 930
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Dimensity 930

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Dimensity 930 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 930 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Dimensity 930 22
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Dimensity 930 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Dimensity 930 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Dimensity 930
CPU 247110 137539
GPU 408357 130844
Memory 162944 97521
UX 146541 140904
Total score 964952 506808
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 57.27% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 930 (3460 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 930 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 90.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 930 (965 K vs 507 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 930.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Dimensity 930 780

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Dimensity 930 2469

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Dimensity 930

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Dimensity 930

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Dimensity 930

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Dimensity 930

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Dimensity 930

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Dimensity 930

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Dimensity 930

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
N/A
Dimensity 930
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     2x 2.2 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 -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU IMG BXM-8-256
  • Architecture Apple GPU PowerVR B-Series
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz -
  • Execution units 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 -
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB -
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP
  • 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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE. Cat.24
  • 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

Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Dimensity 930

Mediatek Dimensity 930
CPU
29%
GPU
22%
Memory
0%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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