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Apple A16 Bionic vs MediaTek Dimensity 1080

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 40 %
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 40 %
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
2,531
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
1,034
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
6,299
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
2,509
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
1,890
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
732
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
5,465
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
2,219
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
947,502 pts
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
473,498 pts
AI performance (NPU)

AI performance (NPU)

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
17.0 TOPS
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz
4.5 TOPS

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
FamilyApple A series (27)Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU groupApple A16 (2)MediaTek Dimensity 10xx (2)
ArchitectureA16Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55
Technology4 nm6 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
SuccessorApple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Everest
3.46 GHz
2x Cortex-A78
2.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Sawtooth
2.02 GHz
6x Cortex-A55
2.00 GHz
L2-Cache20.00 MB
L3-Cache24.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
GPU nameApple A16 (5 GPU Cores)ARM Mali-G68 MP4
GPU frequency0.40 - 1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 6404 / 64
Raytracing
Max. displays31
Max. GPU Memory6 GB
Technology4 nm6 nm
Release dateQ3/2022Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineMediatek APU 3.0
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPSMediaTek APU 3.0 @ 4.5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
MemoryLPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
LPDDR5-5500 (44.0 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB16 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
TDP10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicMediaTek Dimensity 1080
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8.6-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2022Q4/2022
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

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