Apple A15 Bionic vs Google Tensor G3

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Apple A15 Bionic Google Tensor G3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2910MHz)

Google Tensor G3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.4158 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (4.7W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic +26%

1290037

Google Tensor G3

1016809

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A15 Bionic +32%

2333

Google Tensor G3

1767

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A15 Bionic +28%

5741

Google Tensor G3

4477

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Google Tensor G3 +41%

2415

Apple A15 Bionic

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Google Tensor G3

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

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

3230 MHz

Frequency

2910 MHz

6

Cores

9

12 MB

L2 cache

-

5 nm

Process

4 nm

15

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

4.7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G715 MP7

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

890 MHz

5

Execution units

7

128

Shading units

192

6

Max size

16

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.4158 TFLOPS

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

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7300 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3700 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

-

Official page

Google Tensor G3

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