Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M3 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Apple A11 Bionic (35/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A11 Bionic
Apple

Apple A11 Bionic

35/100
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[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 35.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 31.0 Poor 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 5 FPS 20 FPS
Stability 59% 70%
Section 1 — 52 FPS
Section 2 — 38 FPS
Section 3 — 28 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance — 18 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 254993 782907
GPU 116883 1029236
Memory 96795 305749
Total score 626912 2777287
UX 158241 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 2390 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 64 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 10 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 20 W
Transistor count 4.3 billion 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 12 —
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 113.5 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 10.1 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 0.25 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 11.3 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.62 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 83.6 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 58.7 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.23 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 23.6 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 82.1 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 324.3 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 29.8 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.32 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 12.1 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 409.3 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1066 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 3 9
Shading units 64 128
Total shaders 192 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2017 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W72 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 48MP
Max display resolution 2436 x 1125 2732 x 2048
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-08-21(I desperately need a new phone) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-01-08->Tangerine GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-05-13(TestGame) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-06-03(alwayssonqz) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2025-09-28->will09 — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-01-26(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-03(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-21(Noora) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-22(Noora) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-08(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-12(Kaimen) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-17(Jacob) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone X 644307 —
2.Apple iPhone 8 Plus 620370 —
3.Apple iPhone 8 520567 —
Phones with A11 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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