Apple M2 iPad vs Apple A16 Bionic

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Apple M2 iPad Apple A16 Bionic

We compared the tablet version of 8 cores 3490MHz Apple M2 iPad vs. the phone version 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 M2 iPad Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.918 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3490MHz vs 3460MHz)

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple M2 iPad +51%

2188966

Apple A16 Bionic

1441069

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 iPad

2623

Apple A16 Bionic

2627

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 iPad +43%

9803

Apple A16 Bionic

6838

FP32 (float)

Apple M2 iPad +63%

2918

Apple A16 Bionic

1789

Apple M2 iPad

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Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

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

3490 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

8

Cores

6

16 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

5 nm

Process

4 nm

20

Transistor count

16

15 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple M2 GPU

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

8

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

24

Max size

6

2.918 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

6400 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

102.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

15.8 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jun 2022

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1109

Model number

APL1W10

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