Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 680

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 680 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Snapdragon 680 16
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 680 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 680 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 680 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 44.17% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (3460 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 25.49% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (1398 vs 1114 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 283.59% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (965 K vs 252 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 (51.2 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 680 368

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 680 1496

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 680

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 680

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 680

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 680

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 680

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 680

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 680

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 610
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 610
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1114 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 96
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

6400 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

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 16MP
  • 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, VP8, 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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 390 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

CPU
16%
GPU
10%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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