Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A16 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
3000 MHz
3460 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.6-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
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Process
4 nm
4 nm
TDP
6 W
8 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
256 KB
Transistor count
—
16
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 735
Apple A16 GPU
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
1398 MHz
Execution units
2
5
Shading units
256
128
Vulkan version
1.3
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OpenCL version
2.0
—
DirectX version
12.1
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
51.2 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Neural Engine
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Neural Engine
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2796 x 1290
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Mar 2024
Sep 2022
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8635
APL1W10
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,490,645
1,441,069
Geekbench 6
2,019
2,627
Geekbench 6
5,570
6,838
FP32 (float)
1,689
1,789
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.