Apple M5 (iPad) vs Google Tensor G3

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

SOC Google Tensor G3

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X34x 2.37 GHz – Cortex-A7154x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A510

Frequency

4600 MHz

2910 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv9-A

L1 cache

320 KB

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L2 cache

16 MB

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Process

3 nm

4 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

Samsung

TDP

—

4.7 W

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

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Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

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NPU

Apple Neural Engine

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

3840 x 2160

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- 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)

—

Yes

Max camera resolution

—

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.3

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Download speed

—

Up to 7300 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 3700 Mbps

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Oct 2023

Class

Flagship

Official page

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↗

Graphics

GPU name

—

Mali-G715 MP7

GPU frequency

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890 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

192

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,155,649

1,016,809

Geekbench 6

4,175

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Geekbench 6

15,577

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FP32 (float)

—

2,415

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