Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 vs Apple A16 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3, vs Apple A16 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus 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 7 Plus Gen 3
1411268
Apple A16 Bionic
1441348
CPU368941381160
GPU485676472052
Memory314911258668
UX241740329468
NanoReview Score14112681441348
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
10829
Apple A16 Bionic
9874
Stabilityn/a79 %
Graphics Test64 fps59 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1913
Apple A16 Bionic
2627
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
5098
Apple A16 Bionic
6838
File Compression212.4 MB/s236.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser154 pages/s156.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering181.3 MP/sec162.1 MP/sec
Background Blur16.7 frames/s26.5 frames/s
Photo Processing45.7 frames/s77.6 frames/s
Image Detection117.4 frames/s155.8 frames/s
HDR156.1 MP/sec207.5 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.53 MP/sec6.85 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520
- 2/3.46 (Everest)
- 4/2.02 (Sawtooth)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 2800 3460
Instruction set ARMv9.2-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) 5.5 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 732 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 950 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution Units 3 5
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 768 640
FLOPS 1459.2 GFLOPS 1789.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 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 Yes Apple Neural Engine
GPU Frequency n/a 17 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 4200 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 67.2 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max. resolution 2560x1600 pixels 2796x1290 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x48 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- 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 X63 5G n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 5000 MB/s Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced March, 2024 yr September, 2022 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename SM7675-AB APL1W10

Results

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

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