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Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 41 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 50 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
2,531
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
1,034
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
6,299
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz
2,987
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 7s Gen 2
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz
789
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 7s Gen 2
8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz
2,874

More benchmarks

At a glance

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A16 (2)Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (1)
ArchitectureA16Kryo Gold / Kryo Silver
Technology4 nm4 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
SuccessorApple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Everest
3.46 GHz
4x Cortex-A78
0.70 - 2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Sawtooth
2.02 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
0.70 - 1.95 GHz
L2-Cache20.00 MB
L3-Cache24.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
GPU nameApple A16 (5 GPU Cores)Qualcomm Adreno 710
GPU frequency0.40 - 1.34 GHz0.58 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 640 /
Raytracing
Max. displays30
Max. GPU Memory6 GB
Technology4 nm4 nm
Release dateQ3/2022Q3/2023

NPU AI performance

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPSHexagon NPU
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
MemoryLPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
LPDDR5-6400 (25.6 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB12 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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

Technical details

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid, Windows 10/11 (ARM)
Instruction setArmv8.6-A (64 bit)Armv8.7-A (64 bit)
ISA extensionsARM v8 / ARM v7
Release dateQ3/2022Q3/2023
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 2.40 GHz

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