Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 vs Apple A16 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3, vs Apple A16 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 and Apple A16 Bionic
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
626536
Apple A16 Bionic
1441348
CPU212110381160
GPU120714472052
Memory141171258668
UX152541329468
NanoReview Score6265361441348
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
n/a
Apple A16 Bionic
9874
Stabilityn/a79 %
Graphics Testn/a59 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
1017
Apple A16 Bionic
2627
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
2910
Apple A16 Bionic
6838
File Compression158.7 MB/s236.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser71.4 pages/s156.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering106.8 MP/sec162.1 MP/sec
Background Blur9.48 frames/s26.5 frames/s
Photo Processing27.8 frames/s77.6 frames/s
Image Detection57.3 frames/s155.8 frames/s
HDR92.6 MP/sec207.5 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.03 MP/sec6.85 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
- 2/3.46 (Everest)
- 4/2.02 (Sawtooth)
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2400 3460
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache n/a 256 KB
L2 cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 4 nm 4 nm
Transistor count n/a 16 billion
Power (TDP) 5 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 710 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 940 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution Units 2 5
Shader Units 128 128
Total shader 256 640
FLOPS 481.3 GFLOPS 1789.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

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

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 2x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 12 GB 6 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type - UFS 2.2
- UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max. resolution 2520x1080 pixels 2796x1290 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X62 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 2900 MB/s Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 1600 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced September, 2024 yr September, 2022 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename SM6475-AB APL1W10

Results

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

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