Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 750G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 750G 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 750G 23
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 750G 16
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 750G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 750G 37
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 750G
CPU 247110 115426
GPU 408357 77754
Memory 162944 66679
UX 146541 69173
Total score 964952 329032
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 57.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 750G (3460 vs 2200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 69.45% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 750G (1398 vs 825 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 750G (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 750G (4 vs 8 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 193.27% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 750G (965 K vs 329 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 750G.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 750G (51.2 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 750G 629

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 750G 1988

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 750G 120.9

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 750G 18.2

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 750G 30.3

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 750G 26.5

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 750G 18.7

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 750G 2.34

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 750G 614.1

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 3 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

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 570 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 570 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 64 KB
  • L2 cache 16 MB 512 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 619
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 825 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 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 694
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2220 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X52
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • 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

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G

CPU
23%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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