Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We’ve created an extensive comparison of the latest A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 860 SoCs, manufactured by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. We’ve assessed the strengths and weaknesses of these 6-core and 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark results, along with a detailed look at their 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 16.89% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3460 vs 2960 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 200.05% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (6400 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (4 vs 7 nm).
  • A16 Bionic chip has 107.98 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (965 K vs 464 K).
  • A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • A16 Bionic chip supports 50.01 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 ( 51.2 vs 34.13 MHz).
Pros of Snapdragon 860
  • Snapdragon 860 has -51.72 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 675 vs 1398 MHz).

Benchmarks

Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.

AnTuTu 10

The AnTuTu Benchmark evaluates CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O capabilities across various scenarios.
CPU 247110 143028
GPU 408357 179320
Memory 162944 69420
UX 146541 72190
Total score 964952 463958

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% 98%
Graphics test 59 FPS 20 FPS
Score 9862 3455

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
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Cores 6 8
Base Frequency 2020MHz 1800MHz
Turbo Frequency 3460MHz 2960MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.1-A
L2 cache 256 KB -
L2 cache 16 MB -
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 4 nanometers 7 nanometers
Transistor count 16 billion -
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Apple A16 GPU Adreno 640
Architecture Apple GPU Adreno 600
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 675 MHz
Pipelines 6 2
Shading units 768 384
Total shaders 1536 768
FLOPS - 1037 Gigaflops
Vulkan version - 1.1
OpenCL version - 2.0
DirectX version - 12

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 690

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 6400 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus - -
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 16 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type NVMe EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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 - X24 LTE, X50 5G
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed 5G Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed 4G - Up to 2000 Mbps
Upload speed 5G Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed 4G - Up to 316 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced September 2022 April 2019
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W10 SM8150-AC
Official page A16 Bionic chip official site Snapdragon 860 official site