Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple A13 Bionic

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Frequency
3460 MHz
2650 MHz
Cores
6
6
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache
256 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
8 MB
Process
4 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
16
8.5
TDP
8 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Apple A16 GPU
Apple A13 GPU
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
1230 MHz
Execution units
5
4
Shading units
128
64
Vulkan version
-
1.1
OpenCL version
-
2.1
DirectX version
-
12.1

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

AI

NPU
Neural Engine
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
5 TOPS

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
-
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- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced
Sep 2022
Sep 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W10
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📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
1,441,069
891,274
Geekbench 6
2,627
1,748
Geekbench 6
6,838
4,161
FP32 (float)
1,789
629