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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Snapdragon 678
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 678

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 678 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 678 19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 678 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 678 61
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 678 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 678
CPU 247110 101216
GPU 408357 51346
Memory 162944 48181
UX 146541 82701
Total score 964952 283444
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 678 (3460 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 65.44% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (1398 vs 845 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 678 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 63.64% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (4 vs 11 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 240.44% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (965 K vs 283 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 678.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (51.2 vs 14.9 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 678 529

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 678 1536

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 678 102.2

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 678 14.5

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 678 27.8

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 678 23.7

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 678 13.7

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 678 2.05

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 678 527.2

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
2%
Snapdragon 678
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 16 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB 0.256 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 11 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion 12 Billion
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 612
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 845 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 96
  • FLOPS - 354 Gigaflops
  • 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 14.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 685
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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 - X12
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
CPU
19%
GPU
12%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%
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