Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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Apple A16 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Score

Apple A16 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

3460 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

4 nm

Process

14 nm

16

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

96

6

Max size

8

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

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Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264

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

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W10

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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