Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 860

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 16.89% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3460 vs 2960 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 107.11% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1398 vs 675 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 107.98% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (965 K vs 464 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • A16 Bionic chip Support 50.01% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (51.2 vs 34.13 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - QHD @ 60Hz
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.1-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 640
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 675 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 384
  • FLOPS - 1037 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

6400 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 690
  • Storage type NVMe EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • 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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 2000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 5000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
  • 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 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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