Apple M5 (iPad) vs Google Tensor G2

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

SOC Google Tensor G2

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

2x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X12x 2.35 GHz – Cortex-A784x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Frequency

4600 MHz

2850 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.4-A

L1 cache

320 KB

—

L2 cache

16 MB

—

Process

3 nm

5 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

Samsung

L3 cache

—

TDP

—

7 W

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

3200 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

51.2 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 3.1

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

3840 x 2160

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

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

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Audio codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

—

Next-gen Tensor Processing Unit

Max camera resolution

—

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.2

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Download speed

—

Up to 7350 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 3670 Mbps

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Oct 2022

Class

Flagship

Graphics

GPU name

—

Mali-G710 MP7

GPU frequency

—

850 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

2.0

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,155,649

907,387

Geekbench 6

4,175

1,439

Geekbench 6

15,577

3,802

FP32 (float)

—

1,142

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