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Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 83 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 19 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

28C / 28T · 4.06 GHz

3,240

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

28C / 28T · 3.60 GHz

26,210

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

1,890

28C / 28T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

5,465

28C / 28T · 3.60 GHz

42,000

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

Apple M3 Ultra (60 Core)

21,300

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

17.0 TOPS

28C / 28T · 0.70 GHz

70.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	Apple M3 Ultra (2)
Architecture	A16	M3
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
Successor	Apple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	28 / 28
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Everest 3.46 GHz	20x Palma P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz	8x Palma E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	80.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	Apple M3 Ultra (60 Core)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	960 / 7680
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	8
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	256 GB
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q1/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS	32 Neural cores @ 70 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (818.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	1	8
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
TDP	10 W	125 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2022	Q1/2025
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A16 Bionic is 4.1 stars (254 ratings), while Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU) has received 4.9 stars (210 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
28C / 28T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★