Apple M5 (iPad) vs MediaTek Helio G81
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A756x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
4600 MHz
2000 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
320 KB
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L2 cache
16 MB
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Process
3 nm
12 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
1800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
13.41 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
Yes
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
2520 x 1080
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max camera resolution
—
1x 48MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
—
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Aug 2024
Class
Flagship
Low end
Graphics
GPU name
—
Mali-G52 MP2
GPU frequency
—
950 MHz
Shading units
—
24
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
262,145
Geekbench 6
4,175
420
Geekbench 6
15,577
1,391
FP32 (float)
—
91
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.