Apple A12 Bionic vs Google Tensor G5 Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X45x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A7252x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

Frequency

2490 MHz

3400 MHz

Cores

6

8

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

-

L2 cache

0

-

Process

7 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

-

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1100 MHz

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

-

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

-

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

-

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

3840 x 2400

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1x 200MP

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

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

Audio codecs

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

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

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

-

5G support

No

Yes

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

-

Wi-Fi

5

7

Bluetooth

5.0

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Sep 2018

Aug 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

APL1W81

-

AI

NPU

-

Yes

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

643,548

1,445,942

Geekbench 6

1,301

-

Geekbench 6

2,843

-

FP32 (float)

576

1,536