Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 61
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 70
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 62
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 73
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
CPU 247110 374214
GPU 408357 516258
Memory 162944 344248
UX 146541 259884
Total score 964952 1494604
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 15.33% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (3460 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 27.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (1398 vs 1100 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 52.38% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (6400 vs 4200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 54.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,495 K vs 965 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than A16 Bionic chip.
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Support 25.00% higher memory bandwidth than A16 Bionic chip (64 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - QHD+ @ 144 Hz, 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 735
  • Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 768
  • FLOPS - 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 64 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K 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 X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.4
  • 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

CPU
61%
GPU
62%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU
70%
GPU
63%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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