Overview - Exynos 2100 Vs A16 Bionic chip

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Exynos 2100 vs A16 Bionic chip SoCs by Samsung and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-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
Exynos 2100 41
A16 Bionic chip 61
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Exynos 2100 36
A16 Bionic chip 62
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Exynos 2100 82
A16 Bionic chip 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Exynos 2100 53
A16 Bionic chip 70
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Exynos 2100 A16 Bionic chip
CPU 202484 247110
GPU 285430 408357
Memory 123653 162944
UX 140161 146541
Total score 751728 964952
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 19.31% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (3460 vs 2900 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 83.95% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (1398 vs 760 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Exynos 2100 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 20% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 2100 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 28.36% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 2100 (965 K vs 752 K ).
  • A16 Bionic chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 2100.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Exynos 2100 1088
A16 Bionic chip 1870

Multi-Core Score

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Exynos 2100 3624
A16 Bionic chip 5474

Image compression

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Exynos 2100 170.5
A16 Bionic chip 243.5

Face detection

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Exynos 2100 26.7
A16 Bionic chip 46.4

Speech recognition

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Exynos 2100 64.15
A16 Bionic chip 141.8

Machine learning

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Exynos 2100 51.35
A16 Bionic chip 117.1

Camera shooting

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Exynos 2100 33.9
A16 Bionic chip 54.3

HTML 5

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Exynos 2100 3.21
A16 Bionic chip 5.9

SQLite

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Exynos 2100 970.15
A16 Bionic chip 1430

3DMark

Stability 66%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 120 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 4096 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display 8K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2900 MHz

92%
Turbo Clock Speed

3460 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.9 GHz – Cortex-X1
    3x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
    4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - 16 Billion
  • TDP 9 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP14 Apple A16 GPU
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 14 6
  • Shading units 224 768
  • FLOPS 976 Gigaflops -
  • 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 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI Engine with Triple-core NPU and DSP (26 TOPS) Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 4096 x 2160 2796 x 1290
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP 1x 48MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 Exynos Modem 5200 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Samsung Exynos 2100

CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Apple A16 Bionic

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