Comparing Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple A16 Bionic

description_compare Apple A16 Bionic and Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)

• Name
  Apple A16 Bionic Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
• Family
  Apple A series Apple M series
• CPU group
  Apple A16 Apple M1
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  16 1
• Predecessor
  Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) --
• Successor
  -- Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 6 10 / 10
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Everest 8x Firestorm
• B-Core
  4x Sawtooth 2x Icestorm
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• A-Core Frequency
  3.46 GHz 3.20 GHz
• B-Core Frequency
  2.02 GHz 2.06 GHz

• GPU name
  Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores) Apple M1 Pro (16 Core)
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  160 256
• Shader
  1280 2048
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  13 1
• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2021

• 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
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

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

• TDP up
  -- 40 W

• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Chiplet
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB 28.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A16 M1
• Operating systems
  iOS macOS
• Virtualization
  None Apple Virtualization Framework
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2021
• Part Number
  -- APL 1103