Apple A16 Bionic
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple A16 Bionic was introduced at the Apple Keynote in September 2022, where it was used in the Apple iPhone Pro 14. The processor is manufactured using the 4-nanometer process and is based on a hybrid big.LITTLE architecture, with the 6 processor cores being divided into 2 high-performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The high-performance cores clock at 3.46 gigahertz and the efficiency cores at 2.02 gigahertz. Compared to the predecessor, the Apple A15 Bionic with 5 GPU cores, only the clock frequency of the high-performance cores has been increased by 0.23 gigahertz, the clock frequency of the efficient cores is identical. Hyperthreading is not supported by the processor and overclocking of the processor is also not possible.

The processor achieves a single-core value of 1890 points and a multi-core value of 5355 points in the Geekbench 5 benchmark, making it around 10 percent faster than the Apple A15 Bionic.

The internal graphics unit has been improved compared to the predecessor. On the one hand, it is manufactured using the 1 nanometer smaller 4-nanometer process and, on the other hand, the clock frequency is 0.10 gigahertz higher than the Apple A15 Bionic with 5 GPU cores. The GPU has 160 execution units with 1280 shakers and the maximum GPU memory is specified as 8 gigabytes. The GPU of the Apple A16 Bionic achieves a FP32 (single precision) processing power of 2 teraflops and is thus significantly faster than the GPU of the predecessor, which had an FP32 processing power of only 1.5 teraflops.

The Apple A16 Bionic has 6 gigabytes of LPDDR5-6400 RAM installed. The main memory achieves a bandwidth of 51.2 gigabytes / second via the one existing memory channel. There was also an update to the Apple A15 Bionic, which is also equipped with 6 gigabytes of RAM, but the slightly older and slower LPDDR4X-4266 RAM is installed here.

• Manufactured in 4-nanometer process
• Integrated Apple A16 graphics with 5 GPU cores
• Generous L2 and L3 caches
• 51 GB/s maximum memory bandwidth