Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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 51
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 36
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 54
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 29
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 64
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU 247110 256787
GPU 408357 272332
Memory 162944 177778
UX 146541 159966
Total score 964952 866863
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 31.56% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (3460 vs 2630 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 11.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (965 K vs 867 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 7 Gen 3.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

65%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.6-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 720
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz -
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - -
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 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
  • 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 - Snapdragon X63
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 5000 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 1600 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
  • 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

CPU
51%
GPU
54%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

CPU
36%
GPU
29%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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