Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . 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 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic +552%

1441069

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic +872%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

3460 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 MB

L2 cache

-

4 nm

Process

14 nm

16

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 509

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

8

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1843 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.3 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Oct 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W10

Model number

SDM636

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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