Apple A18 Pro vs Google Tensor

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Google Tensor

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro 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

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 2.1709 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Google Tensor Advantages

Lower TDP (5.6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +86%

1733863

Google Tensor

930661

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A18 Pro +153%

3337

Google Tensor

1317

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A18 Pro +156%

8218

Google Tensor

3208

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +2%

2227

Google Tensor

2170

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Google Tensor

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

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

4040 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

5 nm

10 W

TDP

5.6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP20

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

848 MHz

6

Execution units

20

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

12

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1709 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Tensor Processing Unit

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Tensor Processing Unit

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

-

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

Snapdragon X75

Modem

Exynos 5300g

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

S5E9845

-

Official page

Google Tensor

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