Apple A16 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Frequency
3460 MHz
3000 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
256 KB
—
L2 cache
0
1 MB
Process
4 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
16
—
TDP
8 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A16 GPU
Adreno 735
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
1100 MHz
Execution units
5
2
Shading units
128
256
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
12.1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
67.2 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Neural Engine
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Hexagon
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2796 x 1290
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
1x 200MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K 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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 22
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 6500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
7
Bluetooth
5.3
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2022
Mar 2024
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W10
SM8635
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,441,069
1,490,645
Geekbench 6
2,627
2,019
Geekbench 6
6,838
5,570
FP32 (float)
1,789
1,689
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.