Apple A16 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 7050
We’ve put together a comprehensive comparison of the newly released A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 7050 SoCs, brought to you by Apple and Mediatek respectively. This analysis breaks down the pros and cons of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs, evaluated through their Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark scores, along with their technical details.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of A16 Bionic chip
- A16 Bionic chip has 33.08% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 7050 (3460 vs 2600 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 7050 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 7050 (4 vs 6 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 75.10 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 7050 (965 K vs 551 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 7050.
- A16 Bionic chip supports Infinity % higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 7050 ( 51.2 vs MHz).
Pros of Dimensity 7050
- Dimensity 7050 has -42.78 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 800 vs 1398 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 144109 |
| GPU | 408357 | 140847 |
| Memory | 162944 | 126627 |
| UX | 146541 | 139513 |
| Total score | 964952 | 551096 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | 99% |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | - |
| Score | 9862 | 4200 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 2600MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 6 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 16 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 8 W | 4 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Mali-G68 MC4 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Valhall 2 |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | 4 |
| Shading units | 768 | 64 |
| Total shaders | 1536 | 128 |
| FLOPS | - | 686 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | MediaTek APU 3.0 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 200MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K 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 |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 2770 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 1250 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | May 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | APL1W10 | - |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Dimensity 7050 official site |