Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (6.3W vs 8W)

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +6%

1534534

Apple A16 Bionic

1441069

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +94%

3481

Apple A16 Bionic

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

VS

Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

4 nm

-

Transistor count

16

6.3 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 740

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

680 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

1280

Shading units

128

24

Max size

6

3.4816 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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+

Snapdragon X70

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, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2022

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8550-AB

Model number

APL1W10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Official page

-

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