Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A16 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs. 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Apple A16 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.6896 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3000MHz)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+3%
1490645
Apple A16 Bionic
1441069
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
2019
Apple A16 Bionic
+30%
2627
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
5570
Apple A16 Bionic
+22%
6838
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
1689
Apple A16 Bionic
+5%
1789
CPU
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
3000 MHz
Frequency
3460 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
1 MB
L2 cache
16 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
4 nm
-
Transistor count
16
6 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 735
GPU name
Apple A16 GPU
1100 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
2
Execution units
5
256
Shading units
128
24
Max size
6
1.6896 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR5
4200 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
67.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
AI
Hexagon
NPU
Neural Engine
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2796 x 1290
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Snapdragon X70 5G
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 6500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
5.4
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Mar 2024
Announced
Sep 2022
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8635
Model number
APL1W10
