A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 732g
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 732g 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
- A16 Bionic chip has 50.43% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 732g (3460 vs 2300 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 72.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 732g (1398 vs 810 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 732g (6400 vs 1866 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 732g (4 vs 8 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 179.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 732g (965 K vs 345 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 732g.
- A16 Bionic chip Support 243.62% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 732g (51.2 vs 14.9 MHz).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
CPU | 247110 | 101696 |
GPU | 408357 | 92391 |
Memory | 162944 | 54702 |
UX | 146541 | 96441 |
Total score | 964952 | 345230 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Image compression | 243.5 Mpixels/s | 108.4 Mpixels/s |
Face detection | 46.4 images/s | 13.8 images/s |
Speech recognition | 141.8 words/s | 26.7 words/s |
Machine learning | 117.1 images/s | 25.8 images/s |
Camera shooting | 54.3 images/s | 15.6 images/s |
HTML 5 | 5.9 Mnodes/s | 1.58 Mnodes/s |
SQLite | 1430 Mnodes/s | 549.4 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
76%
Apple A169%
SD 732gScore: 9862
Stability | 79% | 99% |
Graphics test | 59 FPS | 6 FPS |
Score | 9862 | 1115 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A16 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 732GDisplay
Max On-Device Display | - | Up to QHD+ @ 120 Hz |
Max On-Display Resolution | - | 3360 x 1440 |
Max External Display | - | 4K @ 60 Hz |
HDR | - | HDR10 |
Color Depth | - | Up to 10-bit |
Color Gamut | - | Rec2020 |
CPU
92%
Apple A1661%
SD 732g
Processor Speed (Frequency)
Architecture |
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 470 Gold (Cortex-A76) 6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 470 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
Cores | 6 | 8 |
Base Frequency | 2020 MHz | 1800 MHz |
Turbo Frequency | 3460 MHz | 2300 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8-A |
L1 cache | 256 KB | - |
L2 cache | 16 MB | - |
L3 cache | - | 1 MB |
Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
Transistor count | 16 Billion | - |
TDP | 8 W | 5 W |
Graphics
GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Adreno 618 |
Architecture | Apple GPU | Adreno 600 |
GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 810 MHz |
Execution units | 6 | 2 |
Shading units | 768 | 128 |
FLOPS | - | 435 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
DirectX version | - | 12 |
Memory
Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 1866 MHz |
Bus | 4x16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 14.9 Gbit/s |
Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon 688 |
Storage type | NVMe | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 |
Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 3360 x 1440 |
Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K 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+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Modem | - | X15 |
4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 15 |
5G support | Yes | No |
Peak Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | - |
Peak Upload speed | Up to 3500 Mbps | - |
Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.1 |
Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
Announced Date | September 2022 | August 2020 |
Class | Flagship | Mid-range |
Model number | APL1W10 | SM7150-AC |
Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Snapdragon 732g official site |