Apple A16 Bionic vs Google Tensor G5
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.536 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3400MHz)
Google Tensor G5 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A16 Bionic
1441069
Google Tensor G5
1445942
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+15%
2627
Google Tensor G5
2267
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A16 Bionic
+19%
6838
Google Tensor G5
5712
FP32 (float)
Apple A16 Bionic
+16%
1789
Google Tensor G5
1536
CPU
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
Architecture
1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525
3460 MHz
Frequency
3400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
16 MB
L2 cache
-
4 nm
Process
3 nm
16
Transistor count
-
8 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A16 GPU
GPU name
-
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
-
6
Max size
16
1.7894 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR5X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
-
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
AI
Neural Engine
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
2796 x 1290
Max display resolution
3840 x 2400
1x 48MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
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
- 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
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.3
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Aug 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W10
Model number
-
