Apple A16 Bionic vs Unisoc Tiger T612
We’ve prepared an in-depth comparison between the newly launched A16 Bionic chip and Tiger T612 SoCs, developed by Apple and Unisoc respectively. We’ve evaluated the pros and cons of these 6-core and 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark benchmark scores alongside their 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 92.22% higher CPU clock speed than Tiger T612 (3460 vs 1800 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 300.00% higher memory frequency than Tiger T612 (6400 vs 1600 MHz).
- A16 Bionic chip has 359.81 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Tiger T612 (965 K vs 210 K).
- A16 Bionic chip has the latest instruction set, hence better than Tiger T612.
- A16 Bionic chip supports Infinity % higher memory bandwidth than Tiger T612 ( 51.2 vs MHz).
Pros of Tiger T612
- Tiger T612 has -53.51 % higher GPU clock speed than A16 Bionic chip ( 650 vs 1398 MHz).
- Tiger T612 has 200.00 % smaller sized transistor than A16 Bionic chip ( 12 vs 4 nm).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 247110 | 67603 |
| GPU | 408357 | 22171 |
| Memory | 162944 | 61955 |
| UX | 146541 | 58129 |
| Total score | 964952 | 209858 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 79% | 97% |
| Graphics test | 59 FPS | 2 FPS |
| Score | 9862 | 413 |
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 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A75 6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020MHz | 1800MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3460MHz | 1800MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L2 cache | 256 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 12 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 16 billion | - |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 8 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Mali-G57 MP1 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Valhall |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 650 MHz |
| Pipelines | 6 | 1 |
| Shading units | 768 | - |
| Total shaders | 1536 | - |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 11 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 6400 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | NVMe | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2160 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 50MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 1K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 1080p at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7500 Mbps | - |
| Download speed 4G | - | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 3500 Mbps | - |
| Upload speed 4G | - | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | May 2022 |
| Class | Flagship | Low end |
| Model number | APL1W10 | - |
| Official page | A16 Bionic chip official site | Tiger T612 official site |