Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Apple A16 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: Samsung Exynos 2500, vs Apple A16 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Samsung Exynos 2500 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
Samsung Exynos 2500
2213797
Apple A16 Bionic
1441348
CPU500921381160
GPU928912472052
Memory410202258668
UX373762329468
NanoReview Score22137971441348
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Samsung Exynos 2500
n/a
Apple A16 Bionic
9874
Stabilityn/a79 %
Graphics Testn/a59 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Samsung Exynos 2500
2648
Apple A16 Bionic
2627
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Samsung Exynos 2500
9881
Apple A16 Bionic
6838
File Compression386.4 MB/s236.7 MB/s
HTML5 Browser234.1 pages/s156.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering272.4 MP/sec162.1 MP/sec
Background Blur36.6 frames/s26.5 frames/s
Photo Processing86.3 frames/s77.6 frames/s
Image Detection246.4 frames/s155.8 frames/s
HDR313.6 MP/sec207.5 MP/sec
Ray Tracing13 MP/sec6.85 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
- 2x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
- 2/3.46 (Everest)
- 4/2.02 (Sawtooth)
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 10 6
Frequency 3300 3460
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache n/a 256 KB
L2 cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 3 nm 4 nm
Transistor count n/a 16 billion
Power (TDP) n/a 8 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Samsung Xclipse 950 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 1300 MHz 1398 MHz
Execution Units 8 5
Shader Units n/a 128
Total shader n/a 640
FLOPS n/a 1789.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.4 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 4800 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 77 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
- UFS 4.1
NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2796x1290 pixels
Camera n/a 1x48 pixels
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- 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

4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed n/a Up to 7500 MB/s
Upload speed n/a Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced August, 2025 yr September, 2022 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename S5E9955 APL1W10

Results

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

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