Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
We’ve thoroughly compared the latest A16 Bionic chip vs Snapdragon 870 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 8.13% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (3460 vs 3200 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 132.73% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (6400 vs 2750 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 42.86% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (4 vs 7 nm).
- A16 Bionic chip has 49.81 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (965 K vs 644 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.
- A16 Bionic chip supports 16.36 % higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 870 ( 51.2 vs 44 MHz).
Pros of Snapdragon 870
- Snapdragon 870 has -53.86 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 645 vs 1398 MHz).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 179347 |
| GPU | 408357 | 270188 |
| Memory | 162944 | 98761 |
| UX | 146541 | 95818 |
| Total score | 964952 | 644114 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | 90% |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | 25 FPS |
| Score | 9862 | 4258 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A16 Bionic chip and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 3200MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 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 650 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 645 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | 2 |
| Shading units | 768 | 512 |
| Total shaders | 1536 | 1024 |
| FLOPS | - | 1,267 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon 698 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 2750 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 44 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K at 30FPS |
| 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+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | X55 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 3000 Mbps |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 316 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | January 2021 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W10 | SM8250-ACSM8250-AC |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Snapdragon 870 official site |