Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Exynos 850

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Exynos 850 SoCs by Apple and Samsung 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
Exynos 850 9
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Exynos 850 6
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Exynos 850 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Exynos 850 29
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

  • A16 Bionic chip has 70.49% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 850 (1398 vs 820 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Exynos 850 (6400 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 50% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 850 (4 vs 8 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 634.24% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (965 K vs 131 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 850.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Exynos 850 150

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Exynos 850 937

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Exynos 850 74.3

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Exynos 850 10.4

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Exynos 850 16.7

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Exynos 850 12.4

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Exynos 850 5.29

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Exynos 850 1.38

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Exynos 850 356.2

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 16 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G52 MP1
  • Architecture Apple GPU Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 820 MHz
  • Execution units 6 6
  • Shading units 768 96
  • FLOPS - 126 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

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine No
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • 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
  • 300 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
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%

Samsung Exynos 850

CPU
9%
GPU
6%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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