Product Compare

Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple M3 iPad

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency 3460 MHz 4050 MHz
Cores 6 8
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 256 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 0 16 MB
Process 4 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 16 25
TDP 8 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name Apple A16 GPU Apple M3 GPU
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1520 MHz
Execution units 5
Shading units 128 144
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 102.4 Gb/s
AI
NPU Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance 18 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 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- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced Sep 2022 Oct 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W10
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 1441069 2143122
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2627 3037
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 6838 11776
FP32 (float) 1789 3502