Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Apple A series Apple A series
• CPU group
  Apple A16 Apple A12/A12X/A12Z
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  16 12
• Predecessor
  Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) Apple A11 Bionic
• Successor
  -- Apple A13 Bionic

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores) Apple A12
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 1.59 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.49 GHz
• Execution units
  160 4
• Shader
  1280 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  3 1
• Generation
  13 9
• Technology
  4 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2018

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A12 Bionic and Apple A16 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  6 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  1 (Single Channel) 1
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A16 Bionic and Apple A12 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A16 Bionic and Apple A16 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  4 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A16 A12
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2018