Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 768g

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 768g 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A16 Bionic chip 61
Snapdragon 768g 25
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 768g 19
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 768g 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 768g 40
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 768g
CPU 247110 126539
GPU 408357 116499
Memory 162944 84021
UX 146541 120080
Total score 964952 447139
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 23.57% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 768g (3460 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 86.40% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 768g (1398 vs 750 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 768g (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 768g (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 115.81% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 768g (965 K vs 447 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 768g.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 201.18% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 768g (51.2 vs 17 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 768g 725

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 768g 2054

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 768g

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 768g

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 768g

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 768g

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 768g

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 768g

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 768g

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 11 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz, QHD+ @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3200 x 1800
  • Max External Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 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

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 475 Prime (Cortex-A76)
    1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 475 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 475 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 620
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 6 3
  • Shading units 768 192
  • FLOPS - 700 Gigaflops
  • 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 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 696
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3200 x 1800
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • 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 - X52
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
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 768g

CPU
25%
GPU
19%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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