Apple A10 Fusion vs Apple M4 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M4 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 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 M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 28.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 25.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
Graphics test 4 FPS 26 FPS
Stability 85% 71%
Section 1 — 63 FPS
Section 2 — 56 FPS
Section 3 — 43 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) No Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance — 38 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
CPU 202669 915032
GPU 63274 1135331
Memory 84317 349968
Total score 516981 3116013
UX 166721 715682

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz –
Cores 4 10
Frequency 2340 MHz 4410 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 192 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 —
Transistor count 3.3 billion 28 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Modem Qualcomm MDM9645M Snapdragon X71
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 M4 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 57.7 MB/sec 501.5 MB/sec
Background blur 4.38 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Edge detection 0.17 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 9.32 images/sec 124.8 images/sec
Feature matching 0.04 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.4 Gpixels/sec 2.8 Gpixels/sec
HDR 56.1 Mpixels/sec 461.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 38.7 pages/sec 305.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.13 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 14.2 images/sec 416.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 44.8 Mpixels/sec 317.1 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 415.5 FPS 4657.1 FPS
Photo processing 13.5 images/sec 139.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.7 Mpixels/sec 14.9 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 7 tests
Stereo matching 10.9 Gpixels/sec 164.7 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
FLOPS 249.6 Gigaflops 3763.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 650 MHz 1470 MHz
OpenCL version 1.2 —
Pipelines 6 —
Shading units 32 —
Total shaders 192 —
Vulkan version 1.1 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
Announced September 2016 May 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W24 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
Bus 2x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gb/s 120 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 1333 MHz 7500 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP —
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 2752 x 2064
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 M4 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-02-21(Cap1bara_tech) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2025-08-15(hellz1) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2024-07-01(Aoul) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-07-10(Vlad) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-09-13(Yusuf baser) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-04-26(BG-M4-User) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-03(Astreeek) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M4 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 7 Plus 557113 —
2.Apple iPhone 7 512305 —
Phones with A10 Fusion AnTuTu v11 —

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