Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
We’ve crafted a detailed comparison between the recently launched A16 Bionic chip and Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoCs, developed by Apple and Qualcomm 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 57.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (3460 vs 2200 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (6400 vs 3200 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 91.32 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (965 K vs 504 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2.
- A16 Bionic chip supports 100.00 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 ( 51.2 vs 25.6 MHz).
Pros of Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
- Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 has -31.69 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 955 vs 1398 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 131871 |
| GPU | 408357 | 163570 |
| Memory | 162944 | 114048 |
| UX | 146541 | 94884 |
| Total score | 964952 | 504373 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | - |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | - |
| Score | 9862 | - |
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 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 2000MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 2200MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 16 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 8 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Adreno 613 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 955 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | - |
| 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 | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 25.6 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | - |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP |
| 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+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Snapdragon X61 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 900 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | June 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | APL1W10 | SM4450 |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 official site |