Apple A18 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 A18 (83/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A18
Apple

Apple A18

83/100
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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 A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 83.0 Very Good 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 90.0 Excellent 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 12 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 31 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 26 FPS 38 FPS
Section 3 20 FPS 28 FPS
Stability 75% 70%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 35 TOPS 18 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 611649 782907
GPU 589953 1029236
Memory 181123 305749
Total score 1972476 2777287
UX 589751 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.6-A
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 9 W 20 W
L1 cache — 256 KB
Transistor count — 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 —
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 5G —
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 Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 286.8 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 36.2 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 1.14 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 71.8 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.39 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.44 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 279.1 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 184.2 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.86 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 297.2 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 201.2 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 2811.1 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 90 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 8.68 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 77.7 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 1907 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1490 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 5 9
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 640 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2024 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1V08 —
Successor -Apple A19 —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 60 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3750 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 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
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 — 2732 x 2048

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-05-14(Lakki) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-20(putheeta) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-04(Sepehr Naraghipour) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-03(iTzRageeh) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-07-15(vovachips) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-18(Aj) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-30(Dddd) 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 A18 Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 16 1985600 —
2.Apple iPhone 16 Plus 1949745 —
3.Apple iPhone 16e 1612788 —
Phones with Apple A18 AnTuTu v11 —

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