Apple A12 Bionic vs Google Tensor G2
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2850MHz Google Tensor G2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)
Google Tensor G2 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.1424 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2850MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Google Tensor G2
+40%
907387
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
Google Tensor G2
+98%
1142
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X1
2x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2490 MHz
Frequency
2850 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
5 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
7 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Mali-G710 MP7
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
850 MHz
4
Execution units
7
64
Shading units
96
4
Max size
16
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.1424 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
Exynos 5300g
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7350 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3670 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Oct 2022
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
-
