Apple A16 Bionic vs Apple M4 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M4 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 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 M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 75.0 Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 81.0 Very Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Graphics test 16 FPS 26 FPS
Section 1 20 FPS 63 FPS
Section 2 16 FPS 56 FPS
Section 3 12 FPS 43 FPS
Stability 74% 71%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 17 TOPS 38 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
CPU 432740 915032
GPU 490354 1135331
Memory 216774 349968
Total score 1626008 3116013
UX 486140 715682

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 3.46 GHz – Everest4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 3460 MHz 4410 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 4 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W —
Transistor count 16 billion 28 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 10000 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
Modem — Snapdragon X71

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 234.4 MB/sec 501.5 MB/sec
Background blur 25.9 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Edge detection 1.05 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 50.9 images/sec 124.8 images/sec
Feature matching 0.29 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.22 Gpixels/sec 2.8 Gpixels/sec
HDR 202.6 Mpixels/sec 461.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 155.2 pages/sec 305.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.73 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 149.7 images/sec 416.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 157.5 Mpixels/sec 317.1 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 2162.5 FPS 4657.1 FPS
Photo processing 76.8 images/sec 139.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.74 Mpixels/sec 14.9 Mpixels/sec
Samples 24 tests 7 tests
Stereo matching 70.4 Gpixels/sec 164.7 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
FLOPS 1789.4 Gigaflops 3763.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1470 MHz
Pipelines 5 —
Shading units 128 —
Total shaders 640 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Announced September 2022 May 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W10 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gb/s 120 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 7500 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (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 —
Max display resolution 2796 x 1290 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 A16 Bionic Apple M4 (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 —
📘 2024-07-01(Aoul) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-07-10(Vlad) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-09-13(Yusuf baser) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-04-26(BG-M4-User) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-03(Astreeek) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A16 Bionic Apple M4 (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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