Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 0.5675 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2450MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
+324%
1441069
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
339384
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+215%
1789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
567
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
3460 MHz
Frequency
2450 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
16 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
4 nm
Process
10 nm
16
Transistor count
3
8 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 540
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
739 MHz
5
Execution units
1
128
Shading units
384
6
Max size
8
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5675 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 682
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
X16
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 16
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Nov 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
MSM8998
