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Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

A16 Bionic chip
VS
Snapdragon 685
A16 Bionic chip
Snapdragon 685

We’ve compiled a side-by-side comparison of the newly released A16 Bionic chip versus Snapdragon 685 SoCs, brought to you by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. This comparison examines the pros and cons of these 6-core and 8 -core processors, with data from Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmarks, alongside their detailed technical specifications.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
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

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of A16 Bionic chip
  • A16 Bionic chip has 23.57% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 685 (3460 vs 2800 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 685 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 257.09 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (965 K vs 270 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 685.
  • A16 Bionic chip supports 201.18 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 ( 51.2 vs 17 MHz).

Benchmarks

Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.
SoC:
A16 Bionic chip
vs
Snapdragon 685

AnTuTu 10

The AnTuTu Benchmark evaluates CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O capabilities across various scenarios.
CPU 247110 81894
GPU 408357 39122
Memory 162944 77991
UX 146541 71216
Total score 964952 270223

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Stability 79% -
Graphics test 59 FPS -
Score 9862 -

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 9300

CPU

Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth		 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
Cores 6 8
Base Frequency 2020MHz 1900MHz
Turbo Frequency 3460MHz 2800MHz
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 -

Graphics

GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 610
Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
GPU frequency 1398 MHz -
Pipelines 6 2
Shading units 768 96
Total shaders 1536 192
FLOPS - -
Vulkan version - 1.1
OpenCL version - 2.0
DirectX version - 12

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 686

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 2.2
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, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem - X11
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
5G support Yes No
Download speed 5G Up to 7500 Mbps -
Download speed 4G - Up to 390 Mbps
Upload speed 5G Up to 3500 Mbps -
Upload speed 4G - Up to 150 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 March 2023
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number APL1W10 SM6225-AD
Official page A16 Bionic chip official site Snapdragon 685 official site