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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 888 Plus – specs and benchmarks

A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

A16 Bionic chip
VS
Snapdragon 888 Plus
A16 Bionic chip
Snapdragon 888 Plus
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus
43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip
63
Snapdragon 888 Plus
39
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip
86
Snapdragon 888 Plus
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip
70
Snapdragon 888 Plus
55

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
  • A16 Bionic chip has 15.53% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3460 vs 2995 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 54.48% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1398 vs 905 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 Plus (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 Plus (4 vs 5 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 13.95% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 Plus (965 K vs 847 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
A16 Bionic chip
vs
Snapdragon 888 Plus

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip +15%
964952
Snapdragon 888 Plus
846825
CPU 247110 216591
GPU 408357 324286
Memory 162944 138188
UX 146541 167760
Total score 964952 846825
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 +60%
1870
Snapdragon 888 Plus
1171
Multi-Core Score
A16 Bionic chip +48%
5474
Snapdragon 888 Plus
3704
Image compression 243.5 Mpixels/s -
Face detection 46.4 images/s -
Speech recognition 141.8 words/s -
Machine learning 117.1 images/s -
Camera shooting 54.3 images/s -
HTML 5 5.9 Mnodes/s -
SQLite 1430 Mnodes/s -

3DMark

76%
Apple A16
45%
Snapdragon 888+
Score: 9862

Stability 79% 99%
Graphics test 59 FPS 33 FPS
Score 9862 5863

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Apple A16 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

Display

Max On-Device Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
Color Gamut - Rec. 2020

  CPU

92%
Apple A16
79%
Snapdragon 888+
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 6 8
Base Frequency 2020 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3460 MHz 2995 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
L3 cache - 4 MB
Process 4 nm 5 nm
Transistor count 16 Billion 10.3 Billion
TDP 8 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 660
Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 905 MHz
Execution units 6 2
Shading units 768 512
FLOPS - 1853 Gigaflops
Vulkan version - 1.1
OpenCL version - 2.0
DirectX version - 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory frequency 6400 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 780
Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
N/A
Snapdragon 888 Plus
N/A
5G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
7500
Snapdragon 888 Plus
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
N/A
Snapdragon 888 Plus
N/A
5G (MB/s)
A16 Bionic chip
3500
Snapdragon 888 Plus
3000
Modem - X60
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date September 2022 June 2021
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W10 SM8350-AC
Official page A16 Bionic chip official site Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

41


Review By TenzysTech

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