Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple A15 Bionic

Comparative analysis of Apple A16 Bionic and Apple A15 Bionic videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A16 Bionic

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1338 MHz
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 5 vs 4
Launch date 7 Sep 2022 vs 14 Sep 2021
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 1338 MHz
Pipelines 5 vs 4

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A16 Bionic Apple A15 Bionic

Essentials

Launch date 7 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2021
Place in performance rating not rated not rated

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1338 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 5 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1.789 TFLOPS 1.713 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5 4
Render output units 20 20

Memory

Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB/s 34.1 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266