How powerful is the new A16 Bionic in iPhone 14 compared to other Android chipsets

Apple is once again embarrassing Android chipset makers, equipping the iPhone 14 with the A16 Bionic delivering a level of performance expected more from laptop and desktop PC systems.

Right from the unveiling event, Apple announced that the new A16 Bionic chipset delivers more performance and at a fraction of the power consumption seen in competing products. And the claim appears to be true, with unofficial performance tests posted to the popular Geekbench online archive showing a consistent performance boost for the iPhone 14 Pro.

Thus, the iPhone 14 Pro reportedly scored 1879 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core test and 4664 points in the multi-core test. By comparison, the predecessor flagship model, the iPhone 13 Pro Max, manages to score 1734 points in the single-core test and 4818 points in the multi-core test.

In the Android camp the situation looks much worse, with Qualcomm’s most powerful chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, scoring just 1304 points in the single-core test and 3782 points in the multi-core.

Before we praise the new A16 Bionic too much, it must be said that Apple also held a considerable performance advantage with the predecessor A15, already positioned well ahead of the competition in the Android camp. Thus, the A16 Bionic looks more like an optimized version of the A15 than an entirely new chipset. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the performance displayed will be confirmed from multiple sources, with the possibility that the iPhone 14 Pro example under test is a pre-production version, with specifications and firmware optimizations not yet finalized. In other words, the retail version of the phone could be even more powerful than that, outlining a considerable performance leap over both other Android phones and the previous iPhone version.