Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A16 Bionic

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Apple A18 Pro

Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro vs. 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 3460MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 2 years late

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (8W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +20%

1733863

Apple A16 Bionic

1441069

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 Pro +27%

3337

Apple A16 Bionic

2627

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 Pro +20%

8218

Apple A16 Bionic

6838

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +24%

2227

Apple A16 Bionic

1789

Apple A18 Pro

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Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

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

4040 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

4 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

4 nm

-

Transistor count

16

10 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

6

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

-

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

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

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

Audio codecs

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

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W10

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