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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Snapdragon 690
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 690

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 690 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 690 22
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 690 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 690 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 690 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 690
CPU 247110 110385
GPU 408357 76645
Memory 162944 63724
UX 146541 94636
Total score 964952 345390
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 73.00% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (3460 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 47.16% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (1398 vs 950 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 690 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 690 (4 vs 8 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 179.38% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 690 (965 K vs 345 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 690.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 690 (51.2 vs 14.9 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 690 607

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 690 1852

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 690 111.3

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 690 16.9

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 690 28.8

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 690 26.7

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 690 15.9

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 690 2.25

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 690 579.5

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
4%
Snapdragon 690
Stability 99%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60Hz
  • HDR - HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 619L
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 950 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 14.9 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 692
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, VP8, 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 - X51
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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

Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
CPU
22%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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