Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A16 Bionic

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Apple A12 Bionic

Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Apple A16 Bionic +123%

1441069

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Apple A16 Bionic +210%

1789

Apple A12 Bionic

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Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth

2490 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

8 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

16

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

4

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

APL1W10

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