Overview - A16 Bionic chip Vs Tiger T700

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A16 Bionic chip vs Tiger T700 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 61
Tiger T700 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A16 Bionic chip 63
Tiger T700 9
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A16 Bionic chip 86
Tiger T700 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A16 Bionic chip 70
Tiger T700 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A16 Bionic chip Tiger T700
CPU 247110 67140
GPU 408357 43026
Memory 162944 44785
UX 146541 58416
Total score 964952 213367
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 90.11% higher CPU clock speed than Tiger T700 (3460 vs 1820 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Tiger T700 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Tiger T700 (6400 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Tiger T700 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 352.25% better AnTuTu 9 score than Tiger T700 (965 K vs 213 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Tiger T700.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 1870
Tiger T700 355

Multi-Core Score

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A16 Bionic chip 5474
Tiger T700 1349

Image compression

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A16 Bionic chip 243.5
Tiger T700 83.2

Face detection

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A16 Bionic chip 46.4
Tiger T700 9.85

Speech recognition

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A16 Bionic chip 141.8
Tiger T700 23.9

Machine learning

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A16 Bionic chip 117.1
Tiger T700 18.5

Camera shooting

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A16 Bionic chip 54.3
Tiger T700 9.6

HTML 5

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A16 Bionic chip 5.9
Tiger T700 1.37

SQLite

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A16 Bionic chip 1430
Tiger T700 421.8

3DMark

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

48%
Turbo Clock Speed

1820 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

83%
Base Frequency

1820 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
    2x 1.82 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.82 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-G52 MC2
  • Architecture Apple GPU Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 1398 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 2
  • Shading units 768 32
  • FLOPS - 54.4 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.0
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 11
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2160 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • 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, 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 - LTE Cat. 7
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 No
  • 5G support Yes -
  • 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
61%
GPU
63%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Unisoc Tiger T700

CPU
14%
GPU
9%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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