All variants of the SoC come with 6 GB of memory. In comparison, the neural engine on the A15 was capable of 15.8 TOPS. The A16's memory has been upgraded to LPDDR5 for 50% higher bandwidth and a 7% faster 16-core neural engine, capable of 17 trillion operations per second (TOPS). The A16 integrates an Apple-designed five-core GPU, which is reportedly coupled with 50% more memory bandwidth when compared to the A15's GPU. 'N4P', as it is called, is a de facto 5 nm fabrication process that offers enhancements in performance, power and density when compared to previous products in the same 5 nm family: N5, N5P and N4. However, a TechInsights analysis found that the A16 was manufactured by TSMC on their N4P process. ĭuring the iPhone 14 launch event Apple touted the A16 chip as the first 4 nm processor in a smartphone. The A16 has hardware video codec encoding and decoding support for HEVC, H.264, and ProRes. It includes an improved neural processing unit (NPU) with 16 cores known as the 'Apple Neural Engine', a new image signal processor (ISP) with improved computational photography capabilities, and a new module for handling screen-related features that Apple calls a 'Display Engine'. The A16 contains 16 billion transistors, a 6.7% increase from the A15's transistor count of 15 billion. Apple claims the A16 is about 40% faster than the competition, and it also has new efficiency cores, with their big advantage being they use a third of the power of the best efficiency cores of other phones on the market. The Apple A16 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit six-core CPU implementing ARMv8.6-A (no SM4 of v8.6, but with HCX) with two 'Everest' high-performance cores running at 3.46 GHz, and four 'Sawtooth' energy-efficient cores running at 2.02 GHz, in a similar design to the A15 processor on iPhone 14. It is used in the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max models only.

The Apple A16 Bionic is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc.

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