Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

We’ve analyzed the newly launched A16 Bionic chip and Snapdragon 680 SoCs, created by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. This comparison highlights the key differences and similarities between these 6-core and 8-core processors, evaluated through Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, and other technical details.

• A16 Bionic chip has 44.17% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (3460 vs 2400 MHz).
• A16 Bionic chip has 25.49% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 680 (1398 vs 1114 MHz).
• A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 680 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
• A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 680 (4 vs 6 nm).
• A16 Bionic chip has 283.59 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (965 K vs 252 K).
• A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 680.
• A16 Bionic chip supports 201.18 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 680 ( 51.2 vs 17 MHz).