Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 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 A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Score

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

16

11 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

1

Execution units

5

96

Shading units

128

8

Max size

6

0.1248 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

7.5 GB/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264

Video codecs

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

AIFF

Audio codecs

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

X9

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2022

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953 Pro

Model number

APL1W10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Official page

-

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