Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M5 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 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 M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 35.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 31.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Graphics test 5 FPS 30 FPS
Stability 59% 71%
Section 1 — 88 FPS
Section 2 — 63 FPS
Section 3 — 46 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
CPU 254993 965229
GPU 116883 1313129
Memory 96795 458312
Total score 626912 3396957
UX 158241 660296

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 2390 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 10 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W —
Transistor count 4.3 billion —

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps —
Wi-Fi 5 7
Modem — C1X

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 113.5 MB/sec 576.8 MB/sec
Background blur 10.1 images/sec 55 images/sec
Edge detection 0.25 Gpixels/sec 2.84 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 11.3 images/sec 177.6 images/sec
Feature matching 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.95 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.62 Gpixels/sec 5.76 Gpixels/sec
HDR 83.6 Mpixels/sec 549.3 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 58.7 pages/sec 374.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.23 Gpixels/sec 2.22 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 23.6 images/sec 452.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 82.1 Mpixels/sec 380 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 324.3 FPS 6580.5 FPS
Photo processing 29.8 images/sec 161.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.32 Mpixels/sec 18.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 12.1 Gpixels/sec 188 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
FLOPS 409.3 Gigaflops 4147.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1066 MHz 1620 MHz
Pipelines 3 —
Shading units 64 —
Total shaders 192 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Announced September 2017 October 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W72 T8142
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 153 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP —
Max display resolution 2436 x 1125 2752 x 2064
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 M5 (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 —
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-07-17->Libero — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M5 (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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