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Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs Google Tensor G3

Last updated: 2026-06-07

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 74 %

Google Tensor G3

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 50 %

Google Tensor G3

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 8T · 2.91 GHz

1,759

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 8T · 2.91 GHz

4,533

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 8T · 2.91 GHz

1,267

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 8T · 2.91 GHz

3,631

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

ARM Immortalis-G715 MP10

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
Family	Apple M series (38)	Google Tensor (5)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Google Tensor G3 (1)
Architecture	M1	G3
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor		Google Tensor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	1x Cortex-X3 2.91 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz	4x Cortex-A715 2.37 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Cortex-A510 1.70 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	ARM Immortalis-G715 MP10
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.89 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	10 /
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q4/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Google Tensor AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS	Google Edge TPU
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-5500 (26.5 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	12 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
TDP	18 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Google Tensor G3
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	macOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	Armv8.7-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2020	Q3/2023
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 (7-GPU) is 4.7 stars (71 ratings), while Google Tensor G3 has received 3.7 stars (109 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Google Tensor G3
8C / 8T · 2.91 GHz

★★★★★