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64

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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

46

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 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 7s Gen 2 28
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 54
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 23
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 64
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
CPU 247110 149371
GPU 408357 232144
Memory 162944 105312
UX 146541 114446
Total score 964952 601273
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 7s Gen 2 (3460 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 48.72% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (1398 vs 940 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 60.48% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (965 K vs 601 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 1001

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 2913

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
14%
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
Stability 99%

Graphics test 18 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

59%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

48%
Base Frequency

1950 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 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 710
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 940 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • 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 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • 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 - Snapdragon X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 2900 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - -
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 1600 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • 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

Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
51%
GPU
54%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
CPU
28%
GPU
23%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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