Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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Apple A16 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 1.7894 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (6.3W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A16 Bionic

1441069

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +6%

1534534

FP32 (float)

Apple A16 Bionic

1789

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +94%

3481

Apple A16 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

3460 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

4 nm

16

Transistor count

-

8 W

TDP

6.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A16 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 740

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

5

Execution units

2

128

Shading units

1280

6

Max size

24

1.7894 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.4816 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR5X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Nov 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W10

Model number

SM8550-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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