Apple A18 Pro 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 A18 Pro (82/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A18 Pro
Apple

Apple A18 Pro

82/100
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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 A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 82.0 Very Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 87.0 Very Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Graphics test 13 FPS 26 FPS
Section 1 35 FPS 63 FPS
Section 2 30 FPS 56 FPS
Section 3 21 FPS 43 FPS
Stability 71% 71%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 35 TOPS 38 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
CPU 521852 915032
GPU 562674 1135331
Memory 187942 349968
Total score 1782199 3116013
UX 509731 715682

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 4050 MHz 4410 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 10 W —
Transistor count — 28 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 5G Snapdragon X71
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 299.9 MB/sec 501.5 MB/sec
Background blur 37.6 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Edge detection 1.3 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 78.2 images/sec 124.8 images/sec
Feature matching 0.49 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.5 Gpixels/sec 2.8 Gpixels/sec
HDR 289.5 Mpixels/sec 461.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 191.2 pages/sec 305.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.98 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 319.6 images/sec 416.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 196.8 Mpixels/sec 317.1 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 3659.7 FPS 4657.1 FPS
Photo processing 91 images/sec 139.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.03 Mpixels/sec 14.9 Mpixels/sec
Samples 14 tests 7 tests
Stereo matching 100 Gpixels/sec 164.7 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
FLOPS 2289 Gigaflops 3763.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1490 MHz 1470 MHz
Pipelines 6 —
Shading units 128 —
Total shaders 768 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Announced September 2024 May 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1V07 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 60 Gb/s 120 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3750 MHz 7500 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro 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 —
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Max display resolution — 2752 x 2064

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-23(rain) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-02(mrboss) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-03(BG-User) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-05-20(013gafurov) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-04(Rain) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-06-15(Anton) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-21(l1tsemerr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Neuron) 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 A18 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 16 Pro 1801176 —
2.Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max 1750331 —
Phones with A18 Pro AnTuTu v11 —

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