Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 . 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 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 6nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic +306%

1441069

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

354293

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic +636%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

3460 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.6-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 MB

L2 cache

-

4 nm

Process

6 nm

16

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 610

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

5

Execution units

1

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

8

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2432 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Mar 2023

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W10

Model number

SM6225-AD

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

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