Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Apple A16 Bionic Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 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 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic +123%

1441069

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic +210%

1789

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Apple A16 Bionic

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

3460 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

6

Cores

6

16 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

4 nm

Process

7 nm

16

Transistor count

6.9

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

5

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

64

6

Max size

4

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

-

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W10

Model number

APL1W81

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