A16 Bionic vs A12 Bionic
We compared two 6-core processors: Apple A16 Bionic (with Apple A16 GPU graphics) and A12 Bionic (Apple A12 GPU). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
- Performs 3.1x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 2.3x) AnTuTu 10 score – 1451K vs 643K
- Announced 4-years and 1-month later
- Has a smaller size transistor (4 versus 7 nm)
- Supports 50% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 34.1 GB/s)
- 39% higher CPU clock speed (3460 vs 2490 MHz)
- Higher GPU frequency (~24%)
- Better instruction set architecture
Promotion
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 10
| CPU | 365046 | 180501 |
| GPU | 460373 | 203202 |
| Memory | 217105 | 123963 |
| UX | 397949 | 132209 |
| Total score | 1451915 | 643688 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 236.7 MB/sec | 108.3 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 156.7 pages/sec | 61.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 162.1 Mpixels/sec | 78.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 155.8 images/sec | 21.4 images/sec |
| HDR | 207.5 Mpixels/sec | 89.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 26.5 images/sec | 10.6 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 77.6 images/sec | 36.4 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 6.85 Mpixels/sec | 3.35 Mpixels/sec |
Promotion
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 82% | 69% |
| Graphics test | 58 FPS | 31 FPS |
| Score | 9851 | 5207 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A16 Bionic and A12 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth |
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
| Cores | 6 | 6 |
| Frequency | 3460 MHz | 2490 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | 8 MB |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 16 billion | 6.9 billion |
| TDP | 8 W | 6 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A16 GPU | Apple A12 GPU |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | Apple GPU |
| GPU frequency | 1398 MHz | 1125 MHz |
| Execution units | 5 | 4 |
| Shading units | 128 | 64 |
| Total shaders | 640 | 256 |
| FLOPS | 1789.4 Gigaflops | 576 Gigaflops |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 3200 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2796 x 1290 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ | AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Intel XMM 7560 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 350 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | September 2022 | September 2018 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W10 | APL1W81 |
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