Apple A16 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . 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 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Released 3 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic +232%

1441069

Samsung Exynos 980

433794

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic +582%

1789

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

3460 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

-

4 nm

Process

8 nm

16

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

5

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

36

6

Max size

8

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 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

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W10

Model number

S5E9630

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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