Google Tensor G5 vs Apple A12 Bionic Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

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

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Frequency

3400 MHz

2490 MHz

Cores

8

6

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.3-A

Process

3 nm

7 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

L1 cache

-

128 KB

L2 cache

-

0

Transistor count

-

6.9

TDP

-

6 W

Graphics

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

1125 MHz

GPU name

-

Apple A12 GPU

Execution units

-

4

Shading units

-

64

Vulkan version

-

1.1

OpenCL version

-

2.0

DirectX version

-

12

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4X

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Memory frequency

-

2133 MHz

Max bandwidth

-

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

NPU

Yes

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

NVMe

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

2688 x 1242

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

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

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Audio codecs

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

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

Neural processor (NPU)

-

Neural Engine

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

No

Wi-Fi

7

5

Bluetooth

5.4

5.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

4G support

-

LTE Cat. 18

Download speed

-

Up to 1000 Mbps

Upload speed

-

Up to 350 Mbps

Info

Announced

Aug 2025

Sep 2018

Class

Flagship

Model number

-

APL1W81

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

1,445,942

643,548

FP32 (float)

1,536

576

Geekbench 6

-

1,301

Geekbench 6

-

2,843