Apple M5 (iPad) vs MediaTek Dimensity 9500

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

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to MediaTek Dimensity 9500 (96/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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MediaTek Dimensity 9500
MediaTek

MediaTek Dimensity 9500

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 96.0 Excellent
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 95.0 Excellent

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Graphics test 30 FPS 23 FPS
Section 1 88 FPS 55 FPS
Section 2 63 FPS 52 FPS
Section 3 46 FPS 43 FPS
Stability 71% 57%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine MediaTek NPU 990
NPU theoretical performance — 100 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
CPU 965229 991635
GPU 1313129 1343858
Memory 458312 348931
Total score 3396957 3455738
UX 660296 771314

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 4210 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.3-A
L1 cache 192 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
L3 cache — 16 MB
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 9 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
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 10700 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 397.3 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 40.9 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 1.31 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 26.1 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.31 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 1.68 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 328.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 292.7 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.78 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 234.3 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 328.1 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 3324.6 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 109.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 10.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 29 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 91.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 5271.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 1716 MHz
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 3.0
Pipelines — 12
Shading units — 128
Total shaders — 1536
Vulkan version — 1.4

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Announced October 2025 September 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number T8142 MT6993
Official page — MediaTek Dimensity 9500 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
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 9500
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 —
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
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 9500
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-10(Dundio) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-12(Ap0game) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-12(burmalda) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-16(chapix) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-21(tarcisioefb) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-22(Querty) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-22->Asura — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-23(vakiho) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
Data manipulation score — 12159
Phones tested — 4 models
Photo editing score — 34571
Video editing score — 5995
Web score — 14375
Writing score — 22695

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) MediaTek Dimensity 9500
1.Vivo iQOO 15T — 4704310
10.Xiaomi 17T Pro — 3323591
2.Honor Magic 8 Pro Air — 4430255
3.Xiaomi Redmi K90 Max — 3760662
4.Vivo X300s — 3703823
5.Vivo X300 Pro — 3587829
6.Oppo Find X9 Pro — 3508681
7.OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra — 3429868
8.Oppo Find X9 — 3400423
9.Vivo X300 — 3330801
Phones with Dimensity 9500 — AnTuTu v11

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