Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2

Compared 2 processors: Apple A16 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A16 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
1441348
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3115282
CPU381160679852
GPU4720521283493
Memory258668646515
UX329468505422
NanoReview Score14413483115282
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A16 Bionic
9874
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
n/a
Stability79 %n/a
Graphics Test59 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A16 Bionic
2627
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3393
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A16 Bionic
6838
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
11515
File Compression236.7 MB/s421.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser156.7 pages/s268 pages/s
PDF Rendering162.1 MP/sec300.8 MP/sec
Background Blur26.5 frames/s42.4 frames/s
Photo Processing77.6 frames/s115.6 frames/s
Image Detection155.8 frames/s353.8 frames/s
HDR207.5 MP/sec339.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing6.85 MP/sec14.1 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2/3.46 (Everest)
- 4/2.02 (Sawtooth)
- 2x 4.6 GHz -
- 6x 3.63 GHz -
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 3460 4600
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB n/a
L2 cache 16 MB n/a
L3 Cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 16 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 8 W n/a

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A16 GPU n/a
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU n/a
GPU Frequency 1398 MHz n/a
Execution Units 5 n/a
Shader Units 128 n/a
Total shader 640 n/a
FLOPS 1789.4 GFLOPS 3990 GFLOPS

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Apple Neural Engine Hexagon
GPU Frequency 17 TOPS n/a

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz n/a
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 6 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe - UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Max. resolution 2796x1290 pixels n/a
Camera 1x48 pixels 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 MB/s n/a
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s n/a
Wi-Fi version 6 7
Bluetooth version 5.3 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2022 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename APL1W10 SM8850

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple A16 Bionic the clear winner in this comparison.

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