Exynos 1380 vs A16 Bionic

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 1380 (Mali-G68 MP5) with the older 6-core Apple A16 Bionic (Apple A16 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
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

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Samsung Exynos 1380
  • Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A16 Bionic
  • Performs 5.9x better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 2.1x) AnTuTu 11 score – 1626K vs 767K
  • Supports 100% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 25.6 GB/s)
  • Higher GPU frequency (~47%)
  • 44% higher CPU clock speed (3460 vs 2400 MHz)
  • Has a smaller size transistor (4 versus 5 nm)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
767711
A16 Bionic +112%
1626008
CPU 320484 432740
GPU 91141 490354
Memory 113558 216774
UX 242528 486140
Total score 767711 1626008
Samples [113 tests] [36 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A16 Bionic +161%
2631
Multi-Core Score
A16 Bionic +144%
6602
Asset compression 146.7 MB/sec 234.4 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 64.4 pages/sec 155.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 109.8 Mpixels/sec 157.5 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 53.7 images/sec 149.7 images/sec
HDR 95.9 Mpixels/sec 202.6 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 9.4 images/sec 25.9 images/sec
Photo processing 27.2 images/sec 76.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.23 Mpixels/sec 6.74 Mpixels/sec
Samples 56 tests 24 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A16 Bionic +650%
22851
Background blur 4.46 images/sec 39.5 images/sec
Face detection 2.17 images/sec 50.9 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.19 Gpixels/sec 1.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.14 Gpixels/sec 1.22 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.05 Gpixels/sec 0.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 9.21 Gpixels/sec 70.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 538 FPS 2162.5 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Samples 35 tests 12 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score 279 -
Stability 98% -
Graphics test 2 FPS -
3DMark Solar Bay
Score - 4266
Stability - 74%
Graphics test - 16 FPS
Section 1 - 20 FPS
Section 2 - 16 FPS
Section 3 - 12 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
A16 Bionic +313%
3335
Score 808 3335
Stability 99% 71%
Graphics test 4 FPS 19 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 10597 -
Video editing score 7345 -
Data manipulation score 10909 -
Photo editing score 25069 -
Writing score 16185 -
Phones tested 8 models -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 1380
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-29 (Saveloy)AnTuTu 12717743
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-29 (Ankit)AnTuTu 12843613
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (P3RF3CT)AnTuTu 12866054
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 -> LessPlum3393AnTuTu 12857296
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (maksπŸ‡°πŸ‡Ώ)AnTuTu 12871135
Apple A16 Bionic
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (Peltsi74)AnTuTu 111477304
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-21 (Атомная Π±ΠΎΠΌΠ±Π°)AnTuTu 111772840
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-19 (Bear lover)AnTuTu 111714105
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-14 (ZUSEPRO)AnTuTu 111603687
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-31 (LORDroid)AnTuTu 111445126

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 1380 and A16 Bionic

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Cores 8 6
Frequency 2400 MHz 3460 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache - 256 KB
L2 cache - 16 MB
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 5 nanometers 4 nanometers
Transistor count - 16 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 8 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G68 MP5 Apple A16 GPU
Architecture Valhall 2nd gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 949 MHz 1398 MHz
Pipelines 5 5
Shading units 32 128
Total shaders 160 640
FLOPS 303.7 Gigaflops 1789.4 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 2.0 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance 4.9 TOPS 17 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 25.6 Gb/s 51.2 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 2796 x 1290
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 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

4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 3790 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 1280 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced February 2023 September 2022
Class Mid range Flagship
Model number S5E8835 APL1W10
Official page Samsung Exynos 1380 official site -
Successor - Samsung Exynos 1580 - Apple A19 Pro

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