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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Snapdragon 685
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 685
CPU 247110 81894
GPU 408357 39122
Memory 162944 77991
UX 146541 71216
Total score 964952 270223
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 23.57% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3460 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 257.09% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (965 K vs 270 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (51.2 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
N/A
Snapdragon 685
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-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 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 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 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 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP, 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

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 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
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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