Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 vs Apple A16 Bionic

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Apple A16 Bionic mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 3 nm (3 nm vs 4 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 4000 MHz (4000 MHz vs 3460 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: October 2024 (October 2024 vs September 2022)

Basic

Qualcomm
Label Name
Apple
October 2024
Launch Date
September 2022
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
Model Name
APL1W10
2x 4 GHz – Cortex-X5 6x 0 GHz – Cortex-A730
Architecture
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest 4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
8
Cores
6
3 nm
Technology
4 nm
4000 MHz
Frequency
3460 MHz

GPU Specifications

-
GPU name
Apple A16 GPU
-
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
-
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
-
Shading units
128
-
Execution units
5
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2796 x 1290

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
Yes
5G support
Yes
5.4
Bluetooth
5.3
7
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Memory Specifications

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

Miscellaneous

Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
-
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
-
TDP
8 W
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
2902 +13%
A16 Bionic
2562
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
9840 +47%
A16 Bionic
6685
Geekbench 5 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
621
A16 Bionic
1736 +180%
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
2166
A16 Bionic
4975 +130%
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
3196241 +125%
A16 Bionic
1421181