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Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 29 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 30 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
1,890
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
8C / 8T · 2.55 GHz
553
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
5,465
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
8C / 8T · 2.55 GHz
1,629
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)
1,789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
Qualcomm Adreno 618
358
AI performance (NPU)

AI performance (NPU)

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
17.0 TOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
8C / 8T · 2.55 GHz
5.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A16 (2)Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c (2)
ArchitectureA16Kryo 468
Technology4 nm8 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c
SuccessorApple A17 ProQualcomm Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Everest
3.46 GHz
2x Kryo 468 Gold
2.55 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Sawtooth
2.02 GHz
6x Kryo 468 Silver
2.55 GHz
L2-Cache20.00 MB
L3-Cache24.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
GPU nameApple A16 (5 GPU Cores)Qualcomm Adreno 618
GPU frequency0.40 - 1.34 GHz0.70 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 640 / 128
Raytracing
Max. displays32
Max. GPU Memory6 GB4 GB
Technology4 nm14 nm
Release dateQ3/2022Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPSHexagon 692 @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
MemoryLPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB16 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
TDP10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8.6-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2022Q2/2021
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2
8C / 8T · 2.55 GHz

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