Apple A12 Bionic vs Google Tensor G3

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Apple A12 Bionic Google Tensor G3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 9 cores 2910MHz Google Tensor G3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.4158 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2910MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (4.7W vs 6W)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Google Tensor G3 +58%

1016809

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Google Tensor G3 +35%

1767

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

Google Tensor G3 +57%

4477

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Google Tensor G3 +319%

2415

Apple A12 Bionic

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Google Tensor G3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X3
4x 2.37 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A510

2490 MHz

Frequency

2910 MHz

6

Cores

9

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

4.7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G715 MP7

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

890 MHz

4

Execution units

7

64

Shading units

192

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.4158 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7300 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3700 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

-

Official page

Google Tensor G3

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