Apple M5 (iPad) vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400

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

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to MediaTek Dimensity 9400 (88/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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MediaTek Dimensity 9400
MediaTek

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

88/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 88.0 Very Good
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 89.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Graphics test 30 FPS 18 FPS
Section 1 88 FPS 46 FPS
Section 2 63 FPS 42 FPS
Section 3 46 FPS 36 FPS
Stability 71% 61%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine MediaTek NPU 890
NPU theoretical performance — 50 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
CPU 965229 900074
GPU 1313129 972096
Memory 458312 345330
Total score 3396957 2825187
UX 660296 607687

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 1x 3.62 GHz – Cortex-X9253x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 3620 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
L3 cache — 12 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 6.0
Modem C1X —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Wi-Fi 7 7
Download speed — Up to 7300 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 344.4 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 30.9 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 19.8 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.29 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 1.71 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 267.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 251 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.78 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 209.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 258.4 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 3456.3 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 84.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 9.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 22 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 73.3 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 4952.1 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 1612 MHz
DirectX version — 12.1
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 9400
Announced October 2025 October 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number T8142 MT6991, MT6991Z/CZA, MT6991W/CZA
Official page — MediaTek Dimensity 9400 official site
Successor — -MediaTek Dimensity 9500

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 85.3 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 5333 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
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 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 320MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-04->linematcha — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-12(AKZ4R) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-31(Xarvis) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-01->Dlack — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-09(chakzz_0) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
Data manipulation score — 16192
Phones tested — 6 models
Photo editing score — 30985
Video editing score — 6211
Web score — 14420
Writing score — 19569

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9400
1.Oppo Find X8 Pro — 2935203
2.Oppo Find X8 — 2884973
3.Vivo X200 Pro — 2825187
4.Vivo X200 Pro mini — 2779129
5.Vivo X200 — 2727422
6.Vivo IQOO Neo 10 Pro — 2727275
Phones with Dimensity 9400 — AnTuTu v11

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