Apple M3 iPad vs Apple A10 Fusion

SOC · Specs Compare

Products
SOC Apple M3 iPad Apple
SOC Apple A10 Fusion Apple
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Frequency
4050 MHz
2340 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
256 KB
64 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
16 nm
Transistor count
25
3.3
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
0
TDP
—
5 W
Graphics
GPU name
Apple M3 GPU
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
1520 MHz
650 MHz
Shading units
144
32
Execution units
—
6
Vulkan version
—
1.1
OpenCL version
—
1.2
DirectX version
—
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
1333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
102.4 Gb/s
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Theoretical Performance
18 TOPS
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Apple M10
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 100 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.3
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 12
Info
Announced
Oct 2023
Sep 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
APL1W24
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,143,122
347,439
Geekbench 6
3,037
—
Geekbench 6
11,776
—
FP32 (float)
3,502
249
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.