Google Tensor G3 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Google Tensor G3 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 9 cores 2910MHz Google Tensor G3 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 G3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.4158 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2910MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (4.7W vs 6W)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Google Tensor G3 +58%

1016809

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Google Tensor G3 +35%

1767

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Google Tensor G3 +57%

4477

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

Google Tensor G3 +319%

2415

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Google Tensor G3

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X3
4x 2.37 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

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

2910 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

9

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

4 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

4.7 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G715 MP7

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

890 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

7

Execution units

4

192

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

2.4158 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

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

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

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 3700 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2023

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

Google Tensor G3

Official page

-

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