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Apple A16 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . 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 0.487 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 17GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)
Released 6 months late
Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic +199%
1441069
Samsung Exynos 1280
481288
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic +267%
1789
Samsung Exynos 1280
487

CPU

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
3460 MHz
Frequency
2400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
16 MB
L2 cache
-
4 nm
Process
5 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G68 MP4
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
1000 MHz
5
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
48
6
Max size
8
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.487 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine
NPU
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.2
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP
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
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 2550 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1840 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2022
Announced
Mar 2022
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W10
Model number
S5E8825
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