Apple A13 Bionic vs Google Tensor G5

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple A13 Bionic Apple

SOC Google Tensor G5

CPU

Architecture

2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder

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

Frequency

2650 MHz

3400 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

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L2 cache

8 MB

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Process

7 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

8.5

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TDP

6 W

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Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A13 GPU

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GPU frequency

1230 MHz

1100 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

Vulkan version

1.1

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OpenCL version

2.1

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DirectX version

12.1

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Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

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Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

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NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Yes

Theoretical Performance

5 TOPS

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Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

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Storage type

NVMe

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

3840 x 2400

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- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV

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

Max camera resolution

—

1x 200MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

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5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

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Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.0

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Sep 2019

Aug 2025

Class

Flagship

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

891,274

1,445,942

Geekbench 6

1,748

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Geekbench 6

4,161

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FP32 (float)

629

1,536

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.