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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 860 – specs and benchmarks

A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 860

A16 Bionic chip
VS
Snapdragon 860
A16 Bionic chip
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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

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

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

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
A16 Bionic chip
vs
Snapdragon 860

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip +109%
964952
Snapdragon 860
463958
CPU 247110 143028
GPU 408357 179320
Memory 162944 69420
UX 146541 72190
Total score 964952 463958
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
A16 Bionic chip +151%
1870
Snapdragon 860
744
Multi-Core Score
A16 Bionic chip +109%
5474
Snapdragon 860
2616
Image compression 243.5 Mpixels/s 142.85 Mpixels/s
Face detection 46.4 images/s 20.3 images/s
Speech recognition 141.8 words/s 44.55 words/s
Machine learning 117.1 images/s 46.35 images/s
Camera shooting 54.3 images/s 22.85 images/s
HTML 5 5.9 Mnodes/s 1.65 Mnodes/s
SQLite 1430 Mnodes/s 777.9 Mnodes/s

3DMark

76%
Apple A16
27%
SD 860
Score: 9862

Stability 79% 98%
Graphics test 59 FPS 20 FPS
Score 9862 3455

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Apple A16 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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

  CPU

92%
Apple A16
78%
SD 860
Processor Speed (Frequency)

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
Base Frequency 2020 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3460 MHz 2960 MHz
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

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

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 16 GB

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

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
N/A
Snapdragon 860
2000
5G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
7500
Snapdragon 860
5000
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
N/A
Snapdragon 860
316
5G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
3500
Snapdragon 860
1200
Modem - X24 LTE, X50 5G
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 1200 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced Date September 2022 April 2019
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W10 SM8150-AC
Official page A16 Bionic chip official site Snapdragon 860 official site
Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
CPU
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

71.25


Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

32


Review By TenzysTech

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