Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic (67/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A15 Bionic
Apple

Apple A15 Bionic

67/100
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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 A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 67.0 Average 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 72.0 Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Graphics test 14 FPS 30 FPS
Section 1 19 FPS 88 FPS
Section 2 14 FPS 63 FPS
Section 3 9 FPS 46 FPS
Stability 71% 71%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 15.8 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
CPU 410975 965229
GPU 370837 1313129
Memory 164151 458312
Total score 1413275 3396957
UX 467312 660296

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 3230 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 5 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W —
Transistor count 15 billion —

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3000 Mbps —
Wi-Fi 6 7
Modem — C1X

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 208.1 MB/sec 576.8 MB/sec
Background blur 22.3 images/sec 55 images/sec
Edge detection 0.82 Gpixels/sec 2.84 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 44.8 images/sec 177.6 images/sec
Feature matching 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.95 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.84 Gpixels/sec 5.76 Gpixels/sec
HDR 179.4 Mpixels/sec 549.3 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 122.9 pages/sec 374.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.62 Gpixels/sec 2.22 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 125.1 images/sec 452.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 139.1 Mpixels/sec 380 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 2198.2 FPS 6580.5 FPS
Photo processing 53.2 images/sec 161.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.26 Mpixels/sec 18.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples 37 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 71.1 Gpixels/sec 188 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
FLOPS 1712.6 Gigaflops 4147.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1338 MHz 1620 MHz
Pipelines 5 —
Shading units 128 —
Total shaders 640 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Announced September 2021 October 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W07 T8142
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 153 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2752 x 2064
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9- 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 A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-22(IphoneFavo) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-13(krishh) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-15(Minh Thai) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-21(Zhenya) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-02(kubasik) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-11(encore) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Goodgame) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-23(Artyom) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-07-17->Libero — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A15 Bionic Apple M5 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 14 Plus 1534654 —
2.Apple iPhone 14 1526761 —
3.Apple iPhone 13 mini 1427851 —
4.Apple iPhone 13 1413275 —
5.Apple iPhone SE (2022) 1346035 —
6.Apple iPhone 13 Pro 1222533 —
7.Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max 1153673 —
Phones with A15 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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