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MediaTek Helio G99 vs Apple A16 Bionic

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 2 - 28 %

MediaTek Helio G99

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 31 %

MediaTek Helio G99

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

712

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

1,875

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

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

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

543

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

1,890

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

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

1,814

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

5,465

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

ARM Mali-G57 MP2

274

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

423,245

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

1,394,590

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

369,410 pts

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

947,502 pts

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

1.0 TOPS

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

17.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
Family	Mediatek Helio (37)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	MediaTek Helio G99 (1)	Apple A16 (2)
Architecture	Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55	A16
Technology	6 nm	4 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor		Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Successor		Apple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Cortex-A76 2.20 GHz	2x Everest 3.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache		20.00 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
GPU name	ARM Mali-G57 MP2	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	0.25 - 1.07 GHz	0.40 - 1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 32	20 / 640
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	6 GB
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q2/2020	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
AI hardware	Mediatek APU	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	MediaTek APU 2 @ 1 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	12 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
TDP		10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G99	Apple A16 Bionic
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	Android	iOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2022	Q3/2022
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of MediaTek Helio G99 is 3.9 stars (309 ratings), while Apple A16 Bionic has received 4.1 stars (254 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Helio G99
8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★