A16 Bionic chip Vs Helio G85
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Helio G85 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
- A16 Bionic chip has 73.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (3460 vs 2000 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 255.56% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (6400 vs 1800 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (4 vs 12 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 287.88% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (965 K vs 249 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.
- A16 Bionic chip Support 281.80% higher memory bandwidth then Helio G85 (51.2 vs 13.41 MHz).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 247110 | 67123 |
| GPU | 408357 | 61260 |
| Memory | 162944 | 42828 |
| UX | 146541 | 77565 |
| Total score | 964952 | 248776 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 243.5 Mpixels/s | 81.2 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 46.4 images/s | 11.9 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 141.8 words/s | 24.2 words/s |
| Machine learning | 117.1 images/s | 18.1 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 54.3 images/s | 9.26 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 5.9 Mnodes/s | 1.55 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 1430 Mnodes/s | 413.5 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
76%
Apple A165%
Helio G85Score: 9862
| Stability | 79% | - |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | 4 FPS |
| Score | 9862 | 710 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A16 Bionic and MediaTek Helio G85Display
| Max On-Device Display | - | - |
| Max On-Display Resolution | - | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | - | - |
| Color Depth | - | - |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
100%
Apple A1658%
Helio G85
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| 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 | 5 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Mali-G52 MP2 |
| Architecture | - | Bifrost 2 |
| GPU frequency | - | 1000 MHz |
| Execution units | 6 | 2 |
| Shading units | 768 | 32 |
| FLOPS | - | 59 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Bus | 4x16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 13.41 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | NVMe | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP |
| 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+ | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | - |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 3500 Mbps | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | September 2022 | April 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | APL1W10 | MT6769Z |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Helio G85 official site |
Apple A16 Bionic
89.25
Review By TenzysTech
MediaTek Helio G85
23.75
Review By TenzysTech
