Apple A12 Bionic vs Google Tensor

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

Google Tensor

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Google Tensor . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1709 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5.6W vs 6W)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Google Tensor +44%

930661

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Google Tensor +276%

2170

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Google Tensor

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X1
2x 2.25 GHz – Cortex A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5.6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP20

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

848 MHz

4

Execution units

20

64

Shading units

64

4

Max size

12

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1709 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Tensor Processing Unit

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Tensor Processing Unit

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Exynos 5300g

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

S5E9845

-

Official page

Google Tensor

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