Apple A16 Bionic – an 6-core chipset that was announced on September 7, 2022, and is manufactured using a 4-nanometer process technology. It has 2 cores Everest at 3460 MHz and 4 cores Sawtooth at 2020 MHz.
Review
CPU Performance
98
Gaming Performance
99
Battery life
100
NanoReview Score
99
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 9
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
But now the latest update geek bench 6 score is single core 2530 and multi-core 6564
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meepis19 February 2023 21:05
I got single core 2519 and a multi-core 6436😡
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ethylene27 January 2023 09:18
~10% better CPU and GPU while consuming a bit more power. That's definitely not how Apple SoCs trend over the last 3 years.
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Ronaldo SUUIII02 December 2022 23:46
TSMC or Samsung's 1nm would be crazy
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Aj8022 September 2022 03:56
May I know where this info comes from? L2 cache 32 MB?
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Sergey25 September 2022 10:47
Wikipedia says tha A16 get 32 MB of L2 shared cache.
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Boris30 September 2022 14:49
Sergey, I've updated it. From DIE analysis - P-Core gets 16MB vs 12MB on A15 while SLC of A15 (32MB) gets down to 24MB on A16, because of wider LPDDR5 memory and not needing of the big pool.
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iPhone gang16 September 2022 07:22
Apple just widened its lead in the chipset race! 😅😂 The performance is even too much for mobile gaming.. damn
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AAPL42020 September 2022 08:12
Why do you care? I'm still on Apple A9 and do everything I do every day. One of these days people won't even have money to buy anymore.
The only thing good about Apple is the stock.
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Android Gang23 September 2022 10:25
Still, Android is much better when comparing price to performance with so much variety. Android has something for everyone, for the rich and for the poor. Android is the King of Mobile System. Just like Windows is the King of Desktop System.
Just some of the similar in performance mobile processor build for Android Device are MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus, Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, Dimensity 9000, Exynos 2200, Snapdragon 888 and so many more coming.
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Nabil26 September 2022 02:35
The GPU is still weaker than 8+ gen 1. Blame android for couldn't utilize its raw power.
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Rik19 October 2022 22:08
Nabil, if Android can’t utilize the GPU power then how do you know the GPU of 8+ gen 1 is better than A16 Bionic’s one? Do you have proof like the ones that prove 8+ gen 1 in CPU is still behind A13 Bionic’s CPU, or you are just crying?
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Dinervc17 November 2022 00:39
Android Gang, Do you want price to performance?
The iPhone SE 3 is arguably the most superior Phone when it comes to that.
Btw all these processors are worse than even just the A15… And the SD8gen2 apparently too… CPU-wise it’s on the A14 level.
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Sreejith KS21 November 2022 17:07
Dinervc, Price to performance does not work like that.
If you are given an a16 chip on a potato for 300 dollars, it is not better than an iPhone 13 with A16. in fact, it might be the least price to performance phone, because you can't utilize half the performance of the processor, and so end up being worse than even mid-end android phones with better displays and cameras, that can use better GPU, ISP, MODEM, etc.
But we have SD 870 phones with 120HZ AMOLED display, stereo speakers, and a large battery that you can play AAA games for more than 4 HR in a row, which can game even the largest game in 1080P, ALL for under 300 dollars (290 maybe.)
AND SERIOUSLY FROM WHERE DO YOU GET THAT 8+GEN1 (NOT EVEN 8GEN 2) and A14 ARE ON THE SAME LEVEL???
From geek bench? then IOS might be a optimized OS, maybe the worst of all the major operating systems, that even though it cannot even process things in the background, even though it doesn't have an interactive widget, after finally inventing widget after 9 years, and lacking any customization that android is capable of doing, an iPhone 14 pro max is just marginally faster than a foldable phone with 8 gen 1 in a mixed speed test involving a variety of APPs and Games?
If you agree that IOS is not at all optimized, then sure, A16 might be light years ahead of 8+ gen 1 (I don't know how 8 gen 2 will perform, but Gary from Gary explained showed a benchmark of 5190 geek bench, which is like 8points less than A16 in multicore).
Else, agree that Apple cherry-picked the geek bench single core results ( it is the only benchmark test in which A14 is faster, not even in multicore geek Bench...), and is fooling their loyal customers, with how they said that their GPU performs better than an RTX 3090, by picking up video editing in h.264 Format, the only workflow, and specific format that it can do better, and Hiding the fact that the video quality is lower than from the hardware accelerated rendering of RTX 3090 ( Hardware rendering is not as perfect as software rendering, and not all hardware rendering are equal apparently, I didn't know that until then.).
And the last bit I want to say, since you can't do anything other than to say you have a faster processor, it doesn't matter even if A14 was truly faster than the 8 gen 1, It is still worthless, except for taking videos, which is better in iPhones every year.
why do I need a processor faster than most laptop processors, if I can't render a video in the background, I was first shocked to discover that, before I understood how iPhones could keep 15 apps in 6GB RAM phones.
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Android Gang 217 December 2022 15:36
Sorry man.. 8 gen 2 is out for phones now and it's destroying the A16. Even 8 gen 1 was on par.
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Ugal27 January 2023 17:05
Rik, Neither Android nor IOS cannot utilize all the GPU, in terms of GPU snapdragon 8+ gen 1 is better than the A16.
