Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Tiger T612

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Tiger T612 SoCs by Apple and Unisoc 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 58
Tiger T612 13
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 57
Tiger T612 8
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Tiger T612 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 67
Tiger T612 26
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Tiger T612
CPU 247110 67603
GPU 408357 22171
Memory 162944 61955
UX 146541 58129
Total score 964952 209858
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 92.22% higher CPU clock speed than Tiger T612 (3460 vs 1800 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 115.08% higher GPU clock speed than Tiger T612 (1398 vs 650 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 300.00% higher memory frequency than Tiger T612 (6400 vs 1600 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Tiger T612 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 359.81% better AnTuTu 9 score than Tiger T612 (965 K vs 210 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Tiger T612.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Tiger T612 347

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Tiger T612 1293

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Tiger T612

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Tiger T612

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Tiger T612

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Tiger T612

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Tiger T612

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Tiger T612

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Tiger T612

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 97%

Graphics test 2 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 60Hz, HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2160 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

45%
Turbo Clock Speed

1800 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 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 12 nm
  • Transistor count 16 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple A16 GPU Mali-G57 MP1
  • Architecture Apple GPU Valhall
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 650 MHz
  • Execution units 6 1
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - 1.0
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 11
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 1600 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2160 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 50MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265
  • 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 - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 300 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3500 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed - 150 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU
58%
GPU
57%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Unisoc Tiger T612

CPU
13%
GPU
8%
Memory
19%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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