Apple A10 Fusion 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 A10 Fusion (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A10 Fusion
Apple

Apple A10 Fusion

28/100
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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 A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 28.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 25.0 Poor 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 4 FPS 20 FPS
Stability 85% 70%
Section 1 — 52 FPS
Section 2 — 38 FPS
Section 3 — 28 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) No Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance — 18 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 202669 782907
GPU 63274 1029236
Memory 84317 305749
Total score 516981 2777287
UX 166721 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 4 8
Frequency 2340 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 64 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 3 MB 16 MB
L3 cache 4 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 16 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W 20 W
Transistor count 3.3 billion 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 12 —
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Modem Qualcomm MDM9645M —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 100 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 57.7 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 4.38 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 0.17 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 9.32 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.04 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.4 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 56.1 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 38.7 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.13 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 14.2 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 44.8 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 415.5 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 13.5 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.7 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 10.9 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 249.6 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 650 MHz 1380 MHz
OpenCL version 1.2 —
Pipelines 6 9
Shading units 32 128
Total shaders 192 1152
Vulkan version 1.1 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2016 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W24 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 2x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 1333 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 48MP
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 2732 x 2048
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- VC-1- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-02-21(Cap1bara_tech) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2025-08-15(hellz1) GeekBench GPU —
📘 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 A10 Fusion Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 7 Plus 557113 —
2.Apple iPhone 7 512305 —
Phones with A10 Fusion AnTuTu v11 —

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