Apple A16 Bionic processor review

Apple A16 Bionic

A16 Bionic processor released by Apple; release date: 7 Sep 2022. The processor is designed for mobile-computers and based on Everest/Sawtooth microarchitecture.

CPU is locked to prevent overclocking. Total number of cores - 6, threads - 6. Maximum CPU clock speed - 3.46 GHz. Manufacturing process technology - 5 nm. Cache size: L1 - 192 KB instruction + 128 KB data (per core), L2 - 16 MB (shared).

Supported memory types: LPDDR5-6400. Maximum memory size: 6 GB.

Benchmarks

PassMark
Single thread mark
Top 1 CPU
This CPU
4870
4068
PassMark
CPU mark
Top 1 CPU
This CPU
156834
11054
Name Value
PassMark - Single thread mark 4068
PassMark - CPU mark 11054

Integrated graphics – Apple A16 Bionic

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1.789 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5
Render output units 20

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture codename Everest/Sawtooth
Launch date 7 Sep 2022
OS Support iOS 16.0, iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1
Place in performance rating 278
Processor Number APL1W10
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 2.02 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB instruction + 128 KB data (per core)
L2 cache 16 MB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm
Maximum frequency 3.46 GHz
Number of cores 6
Number of threads 6
Transistor count 16 billion

Memory

Max memory channels 1
Maximum memory bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
Maximum memory size 6 GB
Supported memory types LPDDR5-6400

Graphics

Execution Units 20
Graphics base frequency 1398 MHz
iGPU core count 5