Apple A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro (77/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A17 Pro
Apple

Apple A17 Pro

77/100
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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 A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 77.0 Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 82.0 Very Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
Graphics test 10 FPS 30 FPS
Section 1 29 FPS 88 FPS
Section 2 23 FPS 63 FPS
Section 3 16 FPS 46 FPS
Stability 71% 71%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 35 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
CPU 374357 965229
GPU 463612 1313129
Memory 184670 458312
Total score 1467470 3396957
UX 444831 660296

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz – Everest4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 3780 MHz 4610 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 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W —
Transistor count 19 billion —

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 6.0
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps —
Modem Snapdragon X70 C1X
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps —
Wi-Fi 6 7

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 254.1 MB/sec 576.8 MB/sec
Background blur 26.7 images/sec 55 images/sec
Edge detection 1.08 Gpixels/sec 2.84 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 65.1 images/sec 177.6 images/sec
Feature matching 0.43 Gpixels/sec 0.95 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.11 Gpixels/sec 5.76 Gpixels/sec
HDR 240.3 Mpixels/sec 549.3 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 166 pages/sec 374.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.8 Gpixels/sec 2.22 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 178.7 images/sec 452.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 180.7 Mpixels/sec 380 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 3313.9 FPS 6580.5 FPS
Photo processing 77.8 images/sec 161.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 7.76 Mpixels/sec 18.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples 32 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 87.6 Gpixels/sec 188 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
FLOPS 2147.2 Gigaflops 4147.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1620 MHz
Pipelines 6 —
Shading units 128 —
Total shaders 768 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
Announced September 2023 October 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1V02 T8142
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gb/s 153 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro 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 camera resolution 1x 48MP —
Max display resolution 1290 x 2796 2752 x 2064
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- 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 A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-15(Tech By Cleft) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-15(k0nd3r) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-17(Markyhuhu) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-24(elips) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-26(Desss) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-28(human) 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 A17 Pro Apple M5 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max 1467470 —
2.Apple iPhone 15 Pro 1452754 —
Phones with A17 Pro AnTuTu v11 —

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