Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Outperforms Apple's A16 Bionic in System
Benchmark (AnTuTu). A16 Bionic Outperforms Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
in CPU Benchmark (Geekbench)
iPhone aficionados often point to the higher Geekbench benchmark scores
of the Bionic CPUs versus the CPUs inside the flagship Qualcomm chipsets
that are used in most Android flagship devices.
GeekBench measures CPU performance only, it does not measure overall
system performance.
The Apple Bionic A16 beat the the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 by 11% in the
Geekbench multi-core test, 5282 versus 4742, so if you're comparing only
raw CPU performance, the A16 Bionic is 11% faster that the CPU inside
the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
The AnTuTu benchmark measures system performance, including CPU, GPU,
RAM, and I/O performance. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 beat the A16 by 23%,
1191732 versus 966983, so if you're comparing the performance of the
whole system, rather than just raw CPU performance, then the Snapdragon
8 Gen 2 is faster.
These numbers are from "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A16 Bionic: It’s a
Close Call"
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https://beebom.com/snapdragon-8-gen-2-vs-apple-a16-bionic/>. It’s
important to note that every device using a Qualcomm Snapdragon SOC (or
Samsung Exynos SOC, or MediaTek Dimensity SOC) will have slightly
different results, even with the same SOC.
Most buyers are purchasing a whole phone, not just a CPU. But in any
case most buyers don't look at benchmark scores at all; they'll choose a
flagship device based on other factors, so slight performance
differences are not a big deal. While the 23% better system performance
of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is significant, it’s not likely to be noticed
by most end users, it’s like buying a car with a maximum speed of 140
MPH versus 120 MPH maximum speed. Apple is likely to catch up, or pass,
the Qualcomm performance with their iPhone 15 Pro models.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has some other advantages over the A16,
especially in terms of photo and video capability, but also with a
better 5G modem (X70 versus X65). But the iPhone 15 Pro, with the Bionic
A17 SOC, is likely to use the x70 modem that's inside the Snapdragon 8
Gen 2, and will also likely support 8K video like the Qualcomm part. ✓
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