Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple A12Z Bionic

Comparative analysis of Apple A16 Bionic and Apple A12Z Bionic videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.

Apple A16 Bionic

Apple A12Z Bionic

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A16 Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1125 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm

Launch date	7 Sep 2022 vs 25 Mar 2020
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Around 60% higher pipelines: 8 vs 5

Pipelines	8 vs 5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A16 Bionic
GPU 2: Apple A12Z Bionic

Name	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple A12Z Bionic
Geekbench - OpenCL		10076

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple A12Z Bionic
Essentials
Launch date	7 Sep 2022	25 Mar 2020
Place in performance rating	not rated	1495
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1125 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.789 TFLOPS	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5	8
Render output units	20	32
Memory
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	68.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	LPDDR4X-4266