Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 . 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 0.727 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
+221%
1441069
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
448489
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+146%
1789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
727
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)
3460 MHz
Frequency
2800 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
16 MB
L2 cache
256 KB
-
L3 cache
0
4 nm
Process
10 nm
16
Transistor count
3
8 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 630
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
710 MHz
5
Execution units
2
128
Shading units
256
6
Max size
8
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.727 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
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 685
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
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
X20
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1200 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
Dec 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
SDM845
