Apple A16 Bionic vs Mediatek Dimensity 720
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 720 SoCs, developed by Apple and Mediatek respectively. Our assessment weighs the benefits and drawbacks of these 6-core and 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, as well as their full technical specifications.
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 73.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (3460 vs 2000 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Dimensity 720 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 720 (4 vs 7 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 227.97 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Dimensity 720 (965 K vs 294 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Dimensity 720.
- A16 Bionic chip supports 199.94 % higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 ( 51.2 vs 17.07 MHz).
Pros of Dimensity 720
- Dimensity 720 has -39.20 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 850 vs 1398 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 94857 |
| GPU | 408357 | 73751 |
| Memory | 162944 | 64277 |
| UX | 146541 | 61339 |
| Total score | 964952 | 294224 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | 97% |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | 7 FPS |
| Score | 9862 | 1219 |
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 GHz – Cortex-A76 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 2000MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 16 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 8 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Mali-G57 MC3 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Valhall |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | 3 |
| Shading units | 768 | 48 |
| Total shaders | 1536 | 96 |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Yes |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 17.07 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 64MP, 2x 20MP |
| 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 LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
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 | - | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | - |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 211 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | July 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | APL1W10 | MT6853V |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Dimensity 720 official site |