Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 0.3194 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2150MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
+453%
1441069
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
260148
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+460%
1789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
319
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
3460 MHz
Frequency
2150 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
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 530
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
624 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
256
6
Max size
8
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3194 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
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
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. 12
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
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Nov 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
MSM8996
