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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
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
Multi-Core Score
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 A1627%
SD 860Score: 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 860Display
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 A1678%
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)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
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 |