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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 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 7 Gen 1 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 49
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
CPU 247110 177123
GPU 408357 162367
Memory 162944 101455
UX 146541 120496
Total score 964952 561441
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 44.17% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (3460 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 133.00% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (1398 vs 600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 71.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (965 K vs 561 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (51.2 vs 25.6 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 812

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 3081

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
16%
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Stability 99%

Graphics test 17 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3360 x 1600
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
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
     1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A710
    3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 3 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 662
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 600 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 384
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP
  • 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 - X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • 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 7 Gen 1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
CPU
34%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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