Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 vs Apple A16 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 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 870 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.3721 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 44GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

810488

Apple A16 Bionic +77%

1441069

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1372

Apple A16 Bionic +30%

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

4 nm

10.3

Transistor count

16

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

670 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

2

Execution units

5

512

Shading units

128

16

Max size

6

1.3721 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 698

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, 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+

X55

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

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

5.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jan 2021

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AC

Model number

APL1W10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Official page

-

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