Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
We’ve thoroughly compared the latest A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoCs, developed by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. Our analysis covers the strengths and weaknesses of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs, evaluated through their Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark scores and other key 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 Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (3460 vs 2000 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (4 vs 6 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 148.64 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (965 K vs 388 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1.
- A16 Bionic chip supports 201.18 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 ( 51.2 vs 17 MHz).
Pros of Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
- Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has -40.99 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 825 vs 1398 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 114597 |
| GPU | 408357 | 93082 |
| Memory | 162944 | 68776 |
| UX | 146541 | 111637 |
| Total score | 964952 | 388092 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | 99% |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | 6 FPS |
| Score | 9862 | 1034 |
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-A78 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 2000MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-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 | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Adreno 619 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 825 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | 4 |
| Shading units | 768 | - |
| Total shaders | 1536 | - |
| 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 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 108MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 1K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 1080p at 60FPS |
| 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+ | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Snapdragon X51 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 800 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 900 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 210 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | October 2022 |
| Class | Flagship | Low end |
| Model number | APL1W10 | SM4375 |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 official site |