Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 vs A16 Bionic chip

60

Points

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

67

Points

A16 Bionic chip

Features

Review

CPU Performance

Single and multi-core processor tests

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 46

A16 Bionic chip 58

Gaming Performance

GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 49

A16 Bionic chip 57

Battery Life

Efficiency of battery consumption

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86

A16 Bionic chip 86

Tenzys Tech Score

Overall chip score

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 60

A16 Bionic chip 67

Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

	Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1	A16 Bionic chip
CPU	243697	247110
GPU	478120	408357
Memory	191931	162944
UX	184166	146541
Total score	1097914	964952

AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 13.78% better AnTuTu 9 score than A16 Bionic chip (1,098 K vs 965 K).

Pros of Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic chip has 8.13% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (3460 vs 3200 MHz).

A16 Bionic chip has 55.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1398 vs 900 MHz).

A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).

Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311

A16 Bionic chip 1870

Multi-Core Score

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117

A16 Bionic chip 5474

Image compression

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 243.5

Face detection

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 46.4

Speech recognition

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 141.8

Machine learning

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 117.1

Camera shooting

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 54.3

HTML 5

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 5.9

SQLite

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

A16 Bionic chip 1430

3DMark

51%

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS

51%

A16 Bionic chip

Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS

Full list of technical specifications

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
HDR HDR10+ -
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2021 -

Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%

Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

86%

Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

49%

Base Frequency

2000 MHz

50%

Base Frequency

2020 MHz

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Cores 8 6
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
L1 cache - 256 KB
L2 cache - 16 MB
L3 cache 6 MB -
Process 4 nm 4 nm
Transistor count - 16 Billion
TDP - 8 W

Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 730 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple GPU
GPU frequency 900 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution units - 6
Shading units - 768
FLOPS - -
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2 -
DirectX version 12 -

Full list of technical specifications

Memory

Memory frequency 3200 _MHz 6400 _MHz
Max bandwidth 51.2 _Gbit/s 51.2 _Gbit/s
Max Size 24 _GB 8 _GB
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x16 Bit

Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2796 x 1290
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 48MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X65 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
5G Download Speed 10240 Mbps 7500 Mbps
4G Download Speed 2500 Mbps -
5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Full list of technical specifications

Info

Announced Date May 2022 September 2022
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - APL1W10
Official page Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 official site A16 Bionic chip official site

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

CPU

46%

GPU

49%

Memory

38%

Energy efficiency and battery life

86%

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

58%

GPU

57%

Memory

75%

Energy efficiency and battery life

86%

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