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Apple A16 Bionic vs Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 2 - 51 %

Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 2 - 72 %

Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

4C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,296

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

4C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

4,510

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (Steam Deck)

1,638

More benchmarks

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
Family	Apple A series (27)	AMD Ryzen 5 (100)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	AMD Sephiroth (Steam Deck Refresh 2023) (1)
Architecture	A16	Sephiroth (Zen 2)
Technology	4 nm	6 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		FF3
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Valve Steam Deck (AMD Custom APU 0405)
Successor	Apple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Everest 3.46 GHz	4x 2.40 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	2.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (Steam Deck)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz	1.00 - 1.60 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Technology	4 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth		7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
TDP	10 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		4 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	SteamOS (Arch Linux)
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2023
Release price
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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 (254 ratings), while Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh) has received 3.9 stars (26 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

Valve Steam Deck (2023 Refresh)
4C / 8T · 2.40 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★