Google Tensor G5 vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Google Tensor G5

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G5 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.536 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Google Tensor G5 +124%

1445942

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

FP32 (float)

Google Tensor G5 +166%

1536

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Google Tensor G5

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

Architecture

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

3400 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

-

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

1100 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

-

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

1.536 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

-

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2025

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

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