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Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 35 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A16 Bionic
Rank 2 - 47 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c
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 8c
8C / 8T · 2.45 GHz
665
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 8c
8C / 8T · 2.45 GHz
2,574
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)
1,789
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c
Qualcomm Adreno 675
1,550
AI performance (NPU)

AI performance (NPU)

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
17.0 TOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c
8C / 8T · 2.45 GHz
7.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8c
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A16 (2)Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c (1)
ArchitectureA16Kryo 490
Technology4 nm7 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 8c
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Everest
3.46 GHz
4x Kryo 490 Gold
2.45 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Sawtooth
2.02 GHz
4x Kryo 490 Silver
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache20.00 MB2.00 MB
L3-Cache24.00 MB3.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8c
GPU nameApple A16 (5 GPU Cores)Qualcomm Adreno 675
GPU frequency0.40 - 1.34 GHz0.25 - 0.59 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 6407 / 672
Raytracing
Max. displays31
Max. GPU Memory6 GB4 GB
Technology4 nm7 nm
Release dateQ3/2022Q4/2018

NPU AI performance

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8c
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPSHexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8c
MemoryLPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB16 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8c
TDP10 W7 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A16 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 8c
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid, Windows 10 (ARM)
Instruction setArmv8.6-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2022Q4/2019
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A16 Bionic
Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c
8C / 8T · 2.45 GHz

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