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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 – specs and benchmarks

A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip
VS
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
A16 Bionic chip
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoCs by Apple and Qualcomm 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip
61
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip
63
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
16
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip
86
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip
70
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
39

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
  • A16 Bionic chip has 73.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (3460 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 55.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (1398 vs 900 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 148.64% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (965 K vs 388 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (51.2 vs 17 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
A16 Bionic chip
vs
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip +156%
964952
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
388092
CPU 247110 114597
GPU 408357 93082
Memory 162944 68776
UX 146541 111637
Total score 964952 388092
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
A16 Bionic chip +202%
1870
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
620
Multi-Core Score
A16 Bionic chip +198%
5474
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
1835
Image compression 243.5 Mpixels/s -
Face detection 46.4 images/s -
Speech recognition 141.8 words/s -
Machine learning 117.1 images/s -
Camera shooting 54.3 images/s -
HTML 5 5.9 Mnodes/s -
SQLite 1430 Mnodes/s -

3DMark

76%
Apple A16
8%
SD 4 Gen 1
Score: 9862

Stability 79% -
Graphics test 59 FPS 6 FPS
Score 9862 1034

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Apple A16 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

Display

Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution - -
Max External Display - -
HDR - -
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

92%
Apple A16
53%
SD 4 Gen 1
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
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 -
L1 cache 256 KB -
L2 cache 16 MB -
L3 cache - -
Process 4 nm 6 nm
Transistor count 16 Billion -
TDP 8 W -

Graphics

GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 619
Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 900 MHz
Execution units 6 4
Shading units 768 -
FLOPS - -
Vulkan version - 1.1
OpenCL version - 2.0
DirectX version - 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2
Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
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)
A16 Bionic chip
N/A
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
800
5G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
7500
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
2500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
N/A
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
210
5G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
3500
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
900
Modem - Snapdragon X51
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 900 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date September 2022 October 2022
Class Flagship Low end
Model number APL1W10 SM4375
Official page A16 Bionic chip official site Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 official site
Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

71.25


Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
CPU
22%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

29.25


Review By TenzysTech

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