Apple M5 (iPad) vs Apple A13 Bionic
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder
Frequency
4600 MHz
2650 MHz
Cores
10
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache
320 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
8 MB
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Transistor count
-
8.5
TDP
-
6 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
5 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
2688 x 1242
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- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Neural Engine
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed
-
Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 350 Mbps
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Sep 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Graphics
GPU name
-
Apple A13 GPU
GPU frequency
-
1230 MHz
Execution units
-
4
Shading units
-
64
Vulkan version
-
1.1
OpenCL version
-
2.1
DirectX version
-
12.1
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
891,274
Geekbench 6
4,175
1,748
Geekbench 6
15,577
4,161
FP32 (float)
-
629