Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 1400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 28nm)
Released 7 years late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 's Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
+964%
1441069
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
135324
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+4060%
1789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430
43
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
3460 MHz
Frequency
1400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
16 MB
L2 cache
-
4 nm
Process
28 nm
16
Transistor count
1
8 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 505
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
450 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
48
6
Max size
4
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0432 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR3
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
1x 32 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 536
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X6
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 4
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 75 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W10
Model number
MSM8937
