Apple M5 (iPad) vs MediaTek Dimensity 9300

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to MediaTek Dimensity 9300 (78/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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MediaTek Dimensity 9300
MediaTek

MediaTek Dimensity 9300

78/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 78.0 Good
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 80.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Graphics test 30 FPS 13 FPS
Section 1 88 FPS 32 FPS
Section 2 63 FPS 30 FPS
Section 3 46 FPS 25 FPS
Stability 71% 68%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine MediaTek NPU 790

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
CPU 965229 740213
GPU 1313129 789881
Memory 458312 362038
Total score 3396957 2447714
UX 660296 555582

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X43x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 3250 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 4 nanometers
L3 cache — 8 MB
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 7 W
Transistor count — 22.7 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.4
Modem C1X MediaTek T830
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Wi-Fi 7 7
Download speed — Up to 7900 Mbps
Upload speed — Up to 4200 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 299.9 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 27.4 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 12.2 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 0.86 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 219.5 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 218.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.67 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 162.1 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 258.4 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 3109.3 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 60.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 8.03 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 9 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 29.3 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 3993.6 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 1300 MHz
DirectX version — 12
OpenCL version — 3.0
Pipelines — 12
Shading units — 128
Total shaders — 1536
Vulkan version — 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Announced October 2025 November 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number T8142 MT6989
Official page — MediaTek Dimensity 9300 official site
Successor — -MediaTek Dimensity 9500

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 76.8 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5T

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 3840 x 2160
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 320MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-06(diabetz) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-06-07(Kelol6554) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-17(lnz) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-08-08(holu096) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-08-10(Mnich) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-10(Mnich.cz) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
Data manipulation score — 12096
Phones tested — 3 models
Photo editing score — 28882
Video editing score — 5651
Web score — 11741
Writing score — 22861

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9300
1.Vivo X100 Pro — 2450986
2.Vivo X100 — 2447714
3.Oppo Find X7 — 2324032
Phones with Dimensity 9300 — AnTuTu v11

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