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64

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Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip

95

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 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 8 Elite (Gen 4) 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 54
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 99
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 64
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 95
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU 247110 635739
GPU 408357 1237734
Memory 162944 460296
UX 146541 457187
Total score 964952 2790956
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 27.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) (1398 vs 1100 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 20.01% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) (6400 vs 5333 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 25% smaller sized transistor than A16 Bionic chip (3 vs 4 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 189.23% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (2,791 K vs 965 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has latest instruction set, hence better than A16 Bionic chip.
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) Support 66.80% higher memory bandwidth than A16 Bionic chip (85.4 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 3155

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 9723

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

3DMark

51%
A16 Bionic chip
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
121%
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Stability %

Graphics test 140 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution - -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

107%
Base Frequency

4320 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
     2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
    6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 830
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 800
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 6 -
  • Shading units 768 768
  • FLOPS - 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.0
  • DirectX version - 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 85.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2540
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 X80
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 6.0
  • 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 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU
98%
GPU
99%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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