Apple A15 Bionic vs Google Tensor G5
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A15 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 1.536 TFLOPS )
Google Tensor G5 Advantages
Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 3230MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 5nm)
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
1290037
Google Tensor G5
+12%
1445942
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+11%
1712
Google Tensor G5
1536
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525
3230 MHz
Frequency
3400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
12 MB
L2 cache
-
5 nm
Process
3 nm
15
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
-
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
5
Execution units
-
128
Shading units
-
6
Max size
16
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
-
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
3840 x 2400
-
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
-
Yes
5G support
Yes
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
-
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Aug 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
-
