Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus vs Apple A16 Bionic

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus and Apple A16 Bionic mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 4 nm (5 nm vs 4 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 3460 MHz (2995 MHz vs 3460 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: September 2022 (June 2021 vs September 2022)

Basic

Qualcomm
Label Name
Apple
June 2021
Launch Date
September 2022
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8350-AC
Model Name
APL1W10
1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
8
Cores
6
5 nm
Technology
4 nm
2995 MHz
Frequency
3460 MHz
10.3
Transistor count
16

GPU Specifications

Adreno 660
GPU name
Apple A16 GPU
905 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
1.8534 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
128
2
Execution units
5
2.0
OpenCL version
-
1.1
Vulkan version
-
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2796 x 1290
12.1
DirectX version
-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
5.2
Bluetooth
5.3
6
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max Bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s

Miscellaneous

Hexagon 780
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
1 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
8K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8 W
TDP
8 W
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 888 Plus
1230
A16 Bionic
2562 +108%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 888 Plus
3778
A16 Bionic
6685 +77%
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 888 Plus
853696
A16 Bionic
1421181 +66%
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 888 Plus
1890 +6%
A16 Bionic
1788