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Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2995MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2995MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.8534 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic +72%
1441069
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
836957
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
1789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus +3%
1853

CPU

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
3460 MHz
Frequency
2995 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
16 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
4 nm
Process
5 nm
16
Transistor count
10.3
8 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 660
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
905 MHz
5
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
512
6
Max size
24
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.8534 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine
NPU
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 780
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K 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
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
6
5.3
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2022
Announced
Jun 2021
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
SM8350-AC
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