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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

Snapdragon 480 Plus
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 480 Plus 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 247110 103367
GPU 408357 83956
Memory 162944 61234
UX 146541 96732
Total score 964952 345289
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 Snapdragon 480 Plus (3460 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 69.45% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1398 vs 825 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (4 vs 8 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 179.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (965 K vs 345 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 480 Plus 505

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 480 Plus

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 480 Plus

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 480 Plus

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 480 Plus

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
5%
Snapdragon 480 Plus
Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • 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

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A -
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 619
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 825 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 128
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 17 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 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 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
62%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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