Apple A16 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 A16 Bionic (75/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A16 Bionic
Apple

Apple A16 Bionic

75/100
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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 A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 75.0 Good 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 81.0 Very Good 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 16 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 20 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 16 FPS 38 FPS
Section 3 12 FPS 28 FPS
Stability 74% 70%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 17 TOPS 18 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 432740 782907
GPU 490354 1029236
Memory 216774 305749
Total score 1626008 2777287
UX 486140 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 3460 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 256 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 4 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 20 W
Transistor count 16 billion 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 —
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 234.4 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 25.9 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 1.05 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 50.9 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.29 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.22 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 202.6 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 155.2 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.73 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 149.7 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 157.5 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 2162.5 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 76.8 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.74 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 24 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 70.4 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 1789.4 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 5 9
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 640 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2022 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W10 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP
Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 2732 x 2048
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 A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-23(Anr1ll) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-09(Trinh Anh Khoi) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-09->Kryon296 AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-12(j0elz) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-15(Julian Ludwig) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-16(Ronaldo) AnTuTu —
📘 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 A16 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 15 1672293 —
2.Apple iPhone 15 Plus 1527281 —
3.Apple iPhone 14 Pro 1501273 —
4.Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max 1324600 —
Phones with A16 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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