Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 28nm)

Released 7 years late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic +964%

1441069

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

135324

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic +4060%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

3460 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 MB

L2 cache

-

4 nm

Process

28 nm

16

Transistor count

1

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 505

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

48

6

Max size

4

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 4

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W10

Model number

MSM8937

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

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