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Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 64 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 31 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

3,940

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

12C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

20,124

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)

6,410

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

17.0 TOPS

12C / 12T · 1.26 GHz

38.0 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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	A16	M4
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Successor	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Everest 3.46 GHz	8x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz	0.39 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	256 / 2048
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	32 GB
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
TDP	10 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2024
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 (261 ratings), while Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (374 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
12C / 12T · 1.26 - 4.51 GHz

★★★★★