Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M3 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency
2390 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache
64 KB
256 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
Process
10 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4.3
25
TDP
8 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
Apple M3 GPU
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
1520 MHz
Execution units
3
-
Shading units
64
144
Vulkan version
1.0
-
OpenCL version
2.1
-
DirectX version
12
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
102.4 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
-
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 12
-
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
5.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Sep 2017
Oct 2023
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W72
-

AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
18 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
409,550
2,143,122
Geekbench 6
1,097
3,037
Geekbench 6
2,357
11,776
FP32 (float)
409
3,502