Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3200MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
1441069
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+51%
2186467
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+21%
2627
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
2159
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A16 Bionic
6838
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+5%
7227
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3460 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
16 MB
L2 cache
2.75 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
4 nm
Process
4 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 825
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
1150 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
-
6
Max size
24
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.3
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Apr 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
SM8735
