Apple M3 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to HiSilicon Kirin 970 (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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HiSilicon Kirin 970
HiSilicon

HiSilicon Kirin 970

26/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 26.0 Poor
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 20.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Graphics test 20 FPS —
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Yes

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
CPU 782907 175802
GPU 1029236 62679
Memory 305749 126756
Total score 2777287 470805
UX 659395 105568

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 10 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W 9 W
Transistor count 25 billion 5.5 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 5.3 4.2
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 1200 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
4G support — LTE Cat. 18

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 87.6 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 2.91 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.31 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 3.98 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 62.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 53.2 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 16 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 61.4 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 409.5 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 11.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 2.52 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 5 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 15 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 214.8 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 746 MHz
Pipelines 9 12
Shading units 128 12
Total shaders 1152 144
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Announced October 2023 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number — Hi3670
Official page — HiSilicon Kirin 970 official site
Successor — -HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 29.8 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - 32 bit@384 kHz- HD-audio
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3120 x 1440
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9- VC-1
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 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 —
📘 2023-10-31(antonio chen) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2024-01-02(Пoльзoвaтeль huiвынь) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-07-21(Guest #4) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2024-09-30(danicabello2010) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2025-10-19(Realalex021) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-12-12(Tran loc) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-01-15(DQP) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
Data manipulation score — 5647
Phones tested — Less than 3
Photo editing score — 11646
Video editing score — 5083
Web score — 5445
Writing score — 6779

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 970
1.Honor 10 — 492523
2.Huawei P20 Pro — 460393
Phones with Kirin 970 — AnTuTu v11

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