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MediaTek Helio G37
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Helio G37

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Helio G37 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
Helio G37 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Helio G37 8
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Helio G37 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Helio G37 26
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Helio G37
CPU 247110 37521
GPU 408357 27112
Memory 162944 33579
UX 146541 40621
Total score 964952 138833
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 50.43% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G37 (3460 vs 2300 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 105.59% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G37 (1398 vs 680 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 300.00% higher memory frequency than Helio G37 (6400 vs 1600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G37 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 595.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G37 (965 K vs 139 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G37.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 268.35% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G37 (51.2 vs 13.9 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Helio G37 914

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Helio G37 178

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Helio G37

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Helio G37

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Helio G37

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Helio G37

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Helio G37

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Helio G37

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Helio G37

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2400 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 2.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU IMG PowerVR GE8320
  • Architecture Apple GPU Rogue
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 680 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 64
  • FLOPS - 56 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 1.2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 1600 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 13.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine No
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2400 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 50MP, 2x 13MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265
  • 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. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • 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 Helio G37

CPU
14%
GPU
8%
Memory
19%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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