Apple M2 Pro vs Apple A16 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple M series Apple A series
• CPU group
  Apple M2 Apple A16
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 16
• Predecessor
  Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  12 / 12 6 / 6
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  8x Avalanche 2x Everest
• B-Core
  4x Blizzard 4x Sawtooth
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• A-Core Frequency
  3.50 GHz 3.46 GHz
• B-Core Frequency
  2.80 GHz 2.02 GHz

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 M2 Pro (16 Core) Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  1.40 GHz 0.70 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  256 160
• Shader
  2048 1280
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  2 13
• Technology
  5 nm 4 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q3/2022

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 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 A16 Bionic and Apple M2 Pro. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 6 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 1 (Single Channel)
• Bandwidth
  204.8 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0
• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M2 Pro and Apple A16 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 8.5 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M2 Pro and Apple M2 Pro, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  5 nm 4 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Chiplet
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  36.00 MB 20.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 24.00 MB
• Architecture
  M2 A16
• Operating systems
  macOS, iPadOS iOS
• Virtualization
  Apple Virtualization Framework None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q3/2022